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Educe the national debt. As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is 7 00 eastern time here in washington. The start of a holiday week. Congress returning in two weeks. President trump spending christmas with his family in florida. It is monday, december 23. We begin our first hour with Foreign Policy. The leaders of china, south korea and japan meeting today in beijing it. Comes as the pentagon and u. S. Officials are on, quote, high alert, after new threats over the weekend by north ko...

Priorities for the 2018 farm bill. The needs are certainly great. Every day our producers encounter extreme and unpredictable weather and pests to name a few. Researches and institutions tasked with these challenges are directed to do so with minimal federal resources and an aging infrastructure. Crafting the agriculture improvement act of and i along with members of this committee recognized that we had to continue to build on the strong history of Agriculture Research in the United States. With the enactment of the bill, the primary department of Agriculture Research education authorities we...

Revenues of those are the revenues the mayor and the board of supervisors have to allocate and this is the projection from the citys fiveyear Financial Plan and you can see i have circled down here that over the four years of this projection theres an average growth rate of about 3. 5 and so we can change that or tweak that in terms of our growth assumption but if we use that number we should be growing our support by no more than about 3. 5 if were not going to continue to exacerbate the citys deficit. So what that translates to is you take this 813 which is where we should end this budget pr...

Pay for general city responsibilities which is things like Retiree Health subsidiaries , Health Service Administration Costs and those dollars that we must spend keep City Services running and were obligated do not have a policy choice to make to reduce them without other action and that leaves about 2. 5 billion that is available that is truly a matter of policy addition correction so in that light our 715 million is much larger share puts us at about 30 of the total discretionary dollars that are available to allocate and so that is a big portion its a much bigger portion than when you look ...

Share puts us at about 30 of the total discretionary dollars that are available to allocate and so that is a big portion its a much bigger portion than when you look at the higher level numbers and that is one of the reasons that our budget is a major factor for the citys general Fund Balancing plan and vice versa when the general fund is in trouble were in trouble and when were in trouble the general fund is in trouble so thats why were always working very carefully to coordinate with Mayors Office and Controllers Office on our Financial Planning so that it alliance with the citys approach. S...