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Andrea, i serve on the budget committee and on the appropriations committee and i can tell you one thing, this budget quite frankly is immoral, and it's sinister. when you look at the fact that we said early on, democrats, who did not vote, we did not vote for the tax cut, we said that we would see huge cuts in medicare, medicaid, social security. guess what? this budget verifies that. >> in a world of vetoes by tweet and open clashes with congress, donald trump's 2020 budget managed to slip under the radar this week. but we took a look at the proposal which is being rejected by both parties. ...

Submitting this request to congress is like having a job and asking your boss for a raise. and the president shows that he cares about building the wall, defense spending, and less about funding domestic nondefense programs. in this way she a small government republican. he is talking about cuts to epa, the state department, the transportation department, and the department of justice. he said he would protect medicare. this budget calls for an $845 billion to medicare.

They stretch into monday, that's when people are really going to start to feel the government shutdown, that's when you're going to see federal workers affected by this, i think it could last a really long time here. both sides are dug in. there's no signs of life on capitol hill right now. as of last night at 8:00 -- if this is any sign of where things are in the talks, the house is actually debating and fighting over whether the republicans yesterday could use a poster of chuck schumer on the house floor. in terms of where i think things are going, it might depend on how this deal actually g...

>> grow everything, but perhaps by a lesser magnitude. say, maybe a dollar for defense, one dollar increase to defense. 30 cent increase equivalent for nondefense programs. elizabeth: if you're a member of the military. how do you react to this? if you're not sure what the funding is going to look like? how do you react for that? >> it's a huge problem for the pentagon. it's the largest agency. half trillion annually they do long-term, five to 30 year planning. it's disruptive to a department that buys good and services and can't move forward with all of their plans. elizabeth: i think that th...

Protection agency. i know donald trump doesn't like it and the head of the e.p.a. doesn't like it, but americans like that rule companies can't dump stuff in your water. >> it could be a gray area. because the e.p.a. is important and the title, environmental protection agency doesn't mean there's not fat to cut. >> there's fat all over the government to cut. >> it's low level nondefense programs. we have had budget fights and big deficits and it's impossible to cut medicare and social security. the military spending has been relatively restrained. so, essentially there's been a lot of cutting ...