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Includes 1.5 billion-dollar down payment for the u.s./mexico border wall. chief correspondent john roberts is live for us with more on that story. hi, john. >> heather, good morning to you. we talked to mick mulvaney he said what it did the office of management and budget went through everything the president talked about on the campaign trail and developed a budget policy for it that's what we see out today. some spending increases, but slashing spending elsewhere. a couple of the big ticket items, first of all, an additional $54 billion in defense spending. 52 of that will go to the departme...

>> we're very happy. we passed a balanced budget and it's important we owe the country a reasonable plan and grows the economy. balancing the budget is not just a statistical exercise it's the necessary means to a healthier economy, it creates more jobs and helps people keep more of hard earned money and a contrast to the other budgets that are passing. at least budgets are passing here for a change, but all the other budgets have trillion dollar plus tax increases and have net spending increases and when he you have a trillion dollar deficit, we need to work on our spending and when the other...

Anti-islamic video for the deadly attack. >> it would have balanced the budget in 10 years the democratic controlled senate rejected paul ryan's budget plan on a 59-40 vote. ryan says it would have put his countrien othe right path. >> we owe the country a balanced budget. it's a reasonable plan. grows the economy. balancing the budget is not just a sta stats tis particular call exercise. creates nor jobs. helps people keep more of their hard earned money when the other side is offering even more spending increases and tax increases. more borrowing. we are worlds apart. >> democratic proposals...

And now they are calling for even more tax increases, and they are not calling to cut spending. they are calling for spending increases. so basically what they're saying is, they want americans to pay more so washington can spend more. that's not going to help the economy, and that is not going to close the gap and balance the budget. the reason we want to balance the budget is not to make the numbers add up. we think that's necessary for growth and opportunity. we think it's necessary to make sure that our kids don't get this debt that they won't be able to handle if we keep going down the pa...

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