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The floor of the house and address significant budget issues for our country. meanwhile, as our debt rises, $22 trillion plus those are the issues that i'm focussed on. i'm not obsessed on what the president is tweeting minute by minute. >> they are official statements from the white house. on the issue of budget, let me ask you this, because you are chairman of the rsc budget. you wrote, i had the opportunity to thank the president for his fiscally conservative leadership. here is the thing. under this president, the federal deficit is up 77% in the first four months of this year alone. the c...

White house press briefing. only one briefing in the last 80 or so days and so there's just a whole pile of questions for the white house press secretary to answer from the russia investigation to immigration to these budget issues. russ will be answering some of those. at some point, the white house press secretary will come forward and presumably answer some of our questions that have been lingering for some time. it's something that we use d to do a whole lot in this broefing room. it's something we haven't seen in quite some time, but perhaps with the departure of the white house communica...

To. >> they had a very good proposal roughly ten years ago to straighten out all these budget issues, unfortunately, they're no longer out there talking about it. >> no, they're not. when you look at this budget, it tells you the priorities of the president. listen, there is increase in chald care. they're going to spend more money in child care, which is super important. across the board, when you look at this, what do you believe the spirit is about? sflits about us and them. the us is the president's base, that's why he's going to try to gin up military spending. that's why he will keep the...

Machine? >> it makes no sense. that's plain and simple. the whole thing doesn't make sense. i hope the people in our country are getting it, this is a president who doesn't think through a lot of things and he harmed so many people not to mention our economy with the unnecessary shutdown. now we're keeping the government running which should be the normal sate of affairs. with this president nothing is normal. >> do you view the senate's activity today and what the house will send as a positive, so the bill itself coming out of congress deals well with these budget issues? walk us through what...

Came up with. here's the view from the other side of the aisle. chuck schumer. >> over the past few months we've been lurching from one manufacturing crisis to another. it would be wonderful for this congress to settle budget issues for the rest of the year and for the country to finally move past. hopefully, hopefully that's what this agreement will portend. if you're turning 65, you're probably learning about medicare and supplemental insurance. medicare is great, but it doesn't cover everything - only about 80% of your part b medicare costs, which means you may have to pay for the rest. tha...