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Bill that would reduce the federal deficit by $337 billion over the next 10 years. the democrats pouncing on the fact that 23 million people will be uninsured under the republican plan. what should we make of the numbers? douglas was the director of the congressional budget office under president george w. bush. he is now the president of the american action form. welcome it is good to see you. >> thank you. >> paul: let's step back before we get into details. for a lot of viewers who do not understand what the role is, i think they wonder, why should they determine policy and why they so impo...

President done think diplomacy is important, nothing could be fath farther from the truth. the president believe ifs diplomacy and we believe this protects that core function of the state department. it just so happens that much of the foreign aid that the president talked about in campaign. much of the money that goes to climate research, green energy are in the state department budget if those line items had been in the department of commerce you would have seen the department of commerce gone down by a similarly large percentage so the answer to your question is most of the cuts within the ...

Spend less money overseas. this came up the other day, hard power versus soft power. there's a very deliberate attempt to send a message to allies, india and other countries that this is a hard power budget, this administration intends to change course from a soft power budget to a hard power budget. one more. yes, ma'am. >> can you explain more about what message the president is trying to send by eliminating a lot of funding for science and climate change research and just a follow-up later. >> sure. a couple different messages when we talk about science and climate change. let's deal with t...

Because we think there's been mission creep. we think they do things outside their core function. there's tremendous opportunity for savings. we recommend a couple facilities be combine and cost savings from that. again, this comes back to the president's business person view of government, which is if you took over this as a ceo and you look at this on a spreadsheet and say why do have have seven when we can do the same job with three? that saves money. the answer is yes. part of your answer is focusing on efficiencies and do what we do better. as to climate change, the president was straight...

Nothing could be further from the truth. we've already seen secretary tillerson has had tremendous one diplomatic success on the deal he cut with iraq. the president believes in diplomacy. we believe this budget protects that core function of the state department. it just so happens much of the foreign aid the president talked about in his campaign, much of the money that goes to climate research, green energy, those types of thins are actually in the state department budget. if those line items had been in the department of commerce, you would see department of commerce having gone down by a ...