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President obama for supposedly cutting embassy security? >> that's one of those line items i leave up to secretary tillerson. he and i talked about the state department budget and how he decides to allocate that. may be there are some embassies that don't need more and some that do. so we gave him the flexibility. the gentleman in the back. >> many countries around the globe thinks the president will cut the foreign aid because most of the countries getting the aid were not with the u.s. supporting terrorism and how doesn't trump feel about those countries? this u.s. is not asking that we don'...

Inkre increase -- >> that's one of those line items we leave up to secretary siller son. we talked about the state department budget and how he decides to allocate that. it may be there are some embassies that don't need a lot more security and some that do, so we give him the flexibility to do that. the gentleman in the back had a question. >> many countries around are worried president trump will cut countries getting u.s. aid, with u.s. supporting targets against u.s. and not working with u.s. how did president trump feel about that? will they continue aid because u.s. taxpayers are asking ...

Results. we can't do that anymore. we can't spend money on programs because they sound good. great. meals on wheels is great. it's a state decision to fund that particular portion of it. take the federal money and give it to the states and say we want to give you money for programs that don't work. we can't defend that anymore. wooer going to spend money, spend a lot of money but not on programs that cannot show that they actually deliver the promises that we made to people. >> talk about programs that do work or don't work. there's a program called the shine in pennsylvania. rural counties th...

Voters, he says, what do you have to lose? it turns out what they have to lose is $6 billion that goes to many programs that benefit those communities. what do you say to those americans -- >> nobody's going to get kicked out of their houses. when we looked at the hud budget we tried to figure out how to spend money better. i talked to dr. carson about this today. what we saw when we went through the analysis was hud budget is a lot of money got spent on government housing, building it. it's actually infrastructure. what secretary carson and i talked about is figuring out a way to do that bett...

Communities. what do you say to those americans -- >> nobody's going to get kicked out of their houses. when we looked at the hud budget we tried to figure out how to spend money better. i talked to dr. carson about this today. what we saw when we went through the analysis was hud budget is a lot of money got spent on government housing, building it. it's actually infrastructure. what secretary carson and i talked about is figuring out a way to do that better. we realized we are working on a large infrastructure program we hope to roll out this sumpl. what secretary carson wants to do is take ...