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Also our soldiers. so we see again a budget is supposed to be a statement of values. what the president is doing is quite outrageous. he is throwing out the window years of compromise in terms of parity, similar amount for defense as for domestic. at the same time, it's important to know that defense is defense, but domestic is also veterans, homeland security, the state department and all that is involved in our security in soft power as well as weapon sales and the rest of that are in the domestic side of the budget. so honoring our camp david commitments and the rest of it all in the domest...

Have you gotten the understanding they're not ready yet? >> i don't know if they're ready or if they're just keeping them secret. we've never been able to proceed why legislation of this magnitude without seeing the congressional budget office score and republicans have -- we both have insisted on that. we have no know what we're doing, what is the impact on the budget. especially if they intend to do this under reconciliation. the impact on the budget is essential to go forward. in terms of they did it outside reconciliation, it's still essential we know what we're doing. >> reporter: what ki...

What is this? is this more contracts for contractors? is this more -- what is it? what is this money for, a? b, how can you possibly take that much money out of the domestic side? then they say, well, we're not going to -- we're going to hold veterans and homeland security, we're not going to cut that. well, if you hold them harmless, then you have even less to invest in education, research and development, 100,000 kid kicked off of head start, probably $3.5 billion cut from the national institutes of health. that's probably a thousand grants to scientific research that we wouldn't be able to ...

Economic growth. the president also said when he was saying this that he was promising clean air and clean water. he's going to cut the epa. does he not know the connection between protections that are in an environmental protection agency and the air our children breathe, the water they drink, the safety of the food that they eat and the protection of their neighborhoods. what is he going to do to the justice function and the law enforcement function in the budget? because all of it will be subjected to cuts according to what he is putting forth. we haven't seen a budget. we've seen -- what d...