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Americans their jobs. >> yesterday he said that cutting $6 billion pushes the limits of what's needed to live within our means. mr. president, this is ludicrous. they rather draw a line in the sand than agree to cut another dime in spending. >> i think the house republican budget went too far. i just don't believe that we need to cut the basics of education for the lower income families across america and that's exactly what the house republican budget does. >> this week's votes are expected to put more pressure on leaders of both parties to find a compromise before a shutdown next friday. i w...

Education, slashing senior care and slashing all sorts of other things that will help the most vulnerable wisconsinites and will hurt the future of wisconsin children. >> well, i know, though, that -- i mean, the latest news is that he's issued union layoff notices which would take effect i believe april 1st. >> right. >> how concerned are you that union members could lose their jobs? we're talking about 1500 layoffs. >> look, randi, what he has done here is that there's a couple of choices here. there's a budget issue that he's made worse by creating corporate tax breaks. and when nurses and ...

Cuts from the baseline. we have a hugely inflated baseline because of the mega spending by the obama administration. secondly, cuts would improve efficiency and now we have a documentation of that. >> brett: it also gives perspective in this gao report that hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars, billions with a "b". we're talking about $61 billion republicans want to cut from the continuing resolution. it gives you a perspective of what you are looking at here? >> i think it changes the whole dynamic of the debate over continuing resolutions that are going to happen ...

Cuts from the baseline. we have a hugely inflated baseline because of the mega spending by the obama administration. secondly, cuts would improve efficiency and now we have a documentation of that. >> brett: it also gives perspective in this gao report that hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars, billions with a "b". we're talking about $61 billion republicans want to cut from the continuing resolution. it gives you a perspective of what you are looking at here? >> i think it changes the whole dynamic of the debate over continuing resolutions that are going to happen ...

Heart of the unions. that was, i thought, the middle of the road approach. one other might be to break this bill down by its component parts and debate each of them individually. >> some of the state senate democrats have said, this doesn't have to be resolved right now. the collective bargaining part. is it possible they could deal with the budget issue and deal with the collective bargaining in more of a debate settling and deal with that later because it doesn't need to be addressed until june? >> i think they probably could, but he senses he has momentum, the governor, on his side. so i th...