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A president who's focussed on these actions but we also need congress and whether it's democrats who currently control the house of representatives or even in the first two terms, or first two years, when you still had democrats needing votes in the senate to get anything passed, what we need are more conservatives with a fiscal responsibility outlook that will cut spending. we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. >> understood, but he's the president, we're talking about the buck stops there, and let's remember for two years he had both republican and a democratic house. the presid...

Growth. that's imperative. >> but you know the deficit is huge because they haven't offset. this new report says it's less than 5% of what was needed to offset the cost. >> but that hiss what happened. look at what happened in the 80s and 90s. lower taxes and lower regulations that lead to unprecedented economic growth and then republicans came in with limited spending and the big government was over. and sit down at a table and have a conversation about spending restraint. we have a spending problem more than a revenue problem. i'll be happy to sit down and have a conversation about what shou...

We were debating the affordable care act, the republicans were all bashing us for cutting $750 billion out of medicare, which we weren't doing either. we weren't proposing any cuts in care. but that's not totally true of the republican cuts. and on the medicaid side, which i'm particularly concerned about because of my state, i finally got the acting director to admit that people would lose coverage under the proposal that they've made for medicaid. there's also a cut in social security disability payments. these are things that the president said he would never touch, and unfortunately, he's ...

It being some knee deep numbers here. let's get into it, though. you look at the budget proposal and you heard the acting director saying we have a spending problem in washington does this budget tackle that problem? >> the budget absolutely does tackle the spending problem. i think in the end the budget deficit problem is one that will depend on growth. last year all the critics were saying there is no way donald trump delivers 3% growth and growth last year was 3.1% exactly what we said. even below the top number and the details everything was about exactly what we said. we say we'll have an...

Two months ago by 230 votes. biggest loss in parliament history. seeing if she can get past the post and move forward getting out of the e.u. >> bill: the white house calling for a return to fiscal sanity. >> washington has a spending problem and it endangers the future prosperity of our nation for generations to come. >> bill: the record budget proposal setting up another showdown on the hill. what will happen next. we'll talk to a top member of the president's economic team. kevin hassett is here to respond from the north lawn. >> sandra: brand-new reaction coming from the zoo and woman invo...