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Know that their dollars are not going to fund discrimination in federally funded programs. it is a very serious mandate that this administration is seeking to cut back in all kinds of different ways. we can't stand for it. >> are you concerned that the agencies that the moral of the people doing this work in these agencies, how will they continue to do the work that they signed on to do at not great pay? >> absolutely. i think the career men and women who signed on to do the important work of enforcing federal civil rights laws, it's a law enforcement job that they are tasked to do, that the m...

What we've made sure is the epa will have enough money to perform its core function -- chris: and you're saying that the $6 billion that you're taking out of nih or want to take out of nih, that's going to have no impact on medical research? >> it will certainly have some impact on medical researchers, but we don't think it will materially impact the quality of the research that's coming out. chris: and if environmentalists say you're wrong? >> step back and talk about what we did on the budget. we reprioritized. defending the nation, including securing the southern border, is the primary func...

What we've made sure is the epa will have enough money to perform its core function -- chris: and you're saying that the $6 billion that you're taking out of nih or want to take out of nih, that's going to have no impact on medical research? >> it will certainly have some impact on medical researchers, but we don't think it will materially impact the quality of the research that's coming out. chris: and if environmentalists say you're wrong? >> step back and talk about what we did on the budget. we reprioritized. defending the nation, including securing the southern border, is the primary func...

Blueprint documents viewed by cnn shows a long list of new cuts that could save the government $18 billion this year and help offset that big boost in defense spending. the steepest cut, $3 billion to education programs, 1.2 billion less for teacher oriented grants. and 1.3 billion cut to surpluses in the pell grant program. officials tell us that still leaves it with enough funding. the pell grant program critical for poor students to afford rising costs of college. 1 point of view 6 billion to housing and urban and a billion reduction to international aid which cuts funding for programs targ...

Democrats pouncing on a projection that 24 million fewer people would be insured by 2026 under the republican plan. douglas holtz-eakin was the director of the office under president george w. bush. american action forum, so welcome. good to see you. >> thank you. paul: let's step back a bitth before we get into the details here, and just for a lot of viewers who don't understand what cbo's role is -- and i think they wonder, well, why should budget scorekeepersle determine policy, and why are they so important in this debate? actually, they never ran for election. [laughter] >> the cbo was cr...