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What he calls ending budget cuts for armed forces, but with that, an increase in spending for military spending and also heard a number of analysts talk about the $1.2 billion in cuts in the form of grants and after school and summer programs like we saw in the piece just before the vice president, so steve, let me go to you, first, and talk about this proposed plan which does make promises of increased military spending, but also, at the expense of a number of cultural programs that will be sustaining lots of cuts. will this be a difficult sell for the president? >> let me start by saying thi...

House vote on the gop plan and they're also discussing the president's economic agenda. we'll continue to monitor and bring you comments as they happen. in the meantime, after-school programs are a lifeline for many working parents, but that lifeline could be in jeopardy. president trump's budget includes a proposal to eliminate $1.2 billion in grants for after-school and summer programs. the programs that the president wants to cut serves about 2 million children nationwide. gary tuchman visited one after-school program in georgia that could soon have to shut its doors. >> reporter: for the...

>> that's the indicator that we need to be looking at. not everybody is going to be able to make it in this economy and particularly as we shift to an economy that requires more and more education to be able to compete. if you look at the education budget, all of those cuts that target, you know, after school programs, summer programs, the supplemental grant program that goes to poor children to enhance their ability to go to college, being wholesale eliminated, work study that helps low income students work their way through college. all of the things that would give people a boot up to be ab...

Department of education, 14% of its budget, the department of transportation losing 13% of its budget. mo eliminating funding for long distance amtrak routes, eliminating 175 million for commercial flights to rural areas. office of community services losing 4.2 billion and this is the low-income home energy assistance program for people who are poor when it gets cold, we're taking money out of that, senior and community services are gone, before-and-after school summer programs, $239 million cut from the irs and women, infant and children's programs are losing $200 million as well. i was chang...

Came from the federal government to support flights to rural areas. that is losing as well. national institutes of health, national endow men for the arts, national endowment for the humts. entirely gone. comp rags for public broadcasting, entirely gone. assistance for heating and energy for people who are low income, that's going to be gone as well. other losers, senior community services employment program, before and after school summer programs. some of you will be excited by this, this is the logo for the internal revenue services. it's getting cut by 239d million people. don't get excite...