Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190311:13:08:00
Following this. obviously that big number requested money for the border wall. what else is in the president's budget? >> let me start off with the other stuff. so president trump's new budget is overall setting up a new battle over the border. what he is promising to do is balance the federal budget in 15 years by slashing spending for education, for health, the environment and other nondefense items. the proposal which rolls out this morning amounts to a total of $2.7 trillion in spending cuts. so the president is going to be looking to reduce spending by 5% across federal agencies, except f...