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There's still a deficit. we didn't add to that in order to spend more money on the president's priorities regarding moving projects out of the base bujz for the agencies and into the infrastructure, the infrastructure program is something we just recently started. it probably won't come until summer or maybe even early fall. we have to do obamacare repeal and replace first, then tax reform second. that leaves infrastructure third. so, you're making an assumption i'm not willing to make. you're making an assumption that all the infrastructure goes to the deficit. i'm not willing to make that as...

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 consider this budget an opening bid and ...

Security and immigration control. increases within the department of energy to deal with nuclear try yad. corresponding reductions and similar amounts offsetting dollar for dollar in other programs. the largest reduction if you've seen the budget already is a 31% reduction within the environmental protection agency. the next largest on percentage basis is department of state, and the other departments are reduced in lesser amounts. i think the smallest reduction we have is nasa which is less than 1%. there again as with many agencies you'll see certain line items within those budgets. this is ...

Just because they sound good. meals on wheels sounds great. that's a state decision to fund that particular portion, to take the federal money and give it to the states and say, look, we to want give you money for programs that don't work. i can't defend that anymore. we cannot defend that anymore. $20 trillion in debt. we're going to spend money, we're going to spend a lot of money but we're not going to spend it on programs that show they deliver the promises we made to people. >> do work or don't work, there's a program in pennsylvania, rural counties of pennsylvania that provides after-sch...

American strength, security, and resolve. >> bret: kevin corke in the white house briefing room. thank you. let's get some insight on the budget blueprint for joining us is the white house budget chief mick mulvaney. >> thanks for having me. >> bret: if you are to explain to somebody in an elevator with this was and you have 30 seconds, what would you tell them? >> topline number, your family sits down and says here's what we're going to spend this year on three or four large line items. that's what this was today. we broke out the numbers for the defense discretionary budget and the nondefens...