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We increased the spending on the president's priorities without adding to that number. >> all right. i want to ay something, this is candidate donald trump throughout the lyear. >> i do want a balanced budget. >> we owe $19 trillion, we have to start paying it down. we have to start balancing budgets. >> these people are talking about balancing budgets 35 years from now? we can do it, believe me, much quicker. we can do it quickly. >> he even made a pledge to get rid of the debt in eight years. okay, if you're going to do this, very, very quickly, nothing in this budget goes close to balance. ...

The same. we plussed up the spending and we increased the spending on the president's priorities without adding to that number. >> all right. i want to play something, this is candidate donald trump throughout the last year. >> i do want a balanced budget. >> we owe $19 trillion, we have to start paying it down. we have to start balancing budgets. >> these people are talking about balancing budgets 35 years from now? we can do it, believe me, much quicker. we can do it quickly. >> he even made a pledge to get rid of the debt in eight years. okay, if you're going to do this, very, very quickly,...

Neutral to the deficit last year isn't congress. >> keep in mind what a budget blueprint is and this is traditional for the first year of a new administration. obama did it, bush did it. what this is is a spending outline. all it is as you mentioned is the discretionary spending part of the budget. that's only 25% of what the government spends. the other 75% roughly is the mandatory, what some people call entitlement spending. in may we'll introduce the full budget to address the ten-year budget window, tax flows, larger policy changes, health care reforms. >> are you pledging a balanced budge...

Republicans push for an additional $100 billion in spending cuts for the current fiscal year. steve centanni is watching it all in washington and explains. >> republicans fighting among themselves to see who can cut the most. house speaker john boehner says he wants to see cuts immediately and he wants the white house to help. >> this morning i sent a letter to president obama signed by 150 economists that say that cutting spending now will help create a better environment so that we can begin to create jobs in our country. >> now, in -- later in that letter to the president, boehner says the ...