Page 24 - Line Items News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Towards science and nasa? >> it does. if you go back through the president's speeches, we tried to identify his priorities. one of the things he told us is, look, i'm still interested in america being involved in space exploration. even though the overall top line is reduced by a fraction, 0.8%, as you mentioned, individual line items that al with specifically space exploration are actually plussed up. part of the intent there is to promote what you just talked about. yes, sir. >> two questions. your experience in the house tells you a lot of these cuts haven't been voted for before. do you co...

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 ...

Sector and show a commitment on the administration's part towards science and nasa. >> it does, if you go back to the speeches the president made and talking about his prioritiespriorities and he said i'm still interested in the united states being involved in space exploration, but individual line items that deal with specifically space exploration is -- up. and part of it is to promote what you just talked about. >> experience in the house tells you that a lot of these cuts haven't been voted for before, do you consider this budget an opening bid and do you expect a lot of pushback from repu...

Increases within the department of justice invisas within the department of homeland security. including border security, immigration controls. increases within the department of energy to deal with nuclear triad and corresponding reductions in similar amounts off-setting dollar for dollar in other programs. the largest reduction if you have seen the budget all right is 31% reduction within the environmental protection agency, the next largest on a percentage basis is with the department of state and other are reduced in lesser amounts. i think the smallest reduction is nasa just less than 1% ...

Increases in the department of homeland security for border security and immigration controls. increases within the department of energy to deal with a nuclear triad. corresponding reductions offsetting dollar for dollar in other programs. the largest reduction is a 31% within the environmental protection agency. the next largest production on a percentage basis is department of state and the other departments are reduced in lesser amounts. the smallest reduction we have is nasa, which is just less than 1%. there again as with many of the agencies, you'll see certain line items in the budgets,...