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Head start program, it's from this week in his district. >> tomorrow will be the last day of work here at head start and the last day of school for some students. but the sequester cuts take effect wednesday, eliminating at least students from head start. >> congress, this is your colleague, republican congress pompeo home district that they are closing because of the sequester, they are closing down head start. so at one point we are gaining a new job and communities survive and those programs affected by the sequester. we are hurting and they are acting like it's all right. and we are doing ...

Say, well, he's really the author of the sequester, even though ryan and almost all of the other voted for it. it's a game and they keep have to being getting called on it. but they thought with the steep cuts, the republicans would never let the sequester go into effect and that was a mistake. and i think also the administration left the impression that this was going to hit hard at the beginning. no, it wasn't, but it's really debilitating and i think they need to recalibrate their strategy, just like my boston celtics and your brooklyn nets did. but i think they can do it. >> you know, when...

Something. i have to tell you, i've always liked meals on wheels, because it's understandable. people stuck in home because of alzheimer's or diabetes or any reason they can't go out and go to the store and look out for themselves, you bring a meal around. >> that's exactly right. that's exactly right. >> what's happening now? >> we're challenged. sequester is hurting in a big, big way. i was glad to hear you say it's a partially subsidized program of meals on wheels. 30% of funding from federal funding. >> how many people rely on you? >> we serve over a million meals a day. >> it's one thing ...

Hill know what's going on. they are truly shut in. >> what's a meal like? >> meal's good, tasty. >> not an unhealthy pizza? >> if we were to eat that meal all day, we'd be big. probably their only meal all day. >> 4:00, 5:00 in the afternoon, how does it come in? >> most around the noon hour, some receive multiple meals a day, some are seven days a week. >> how do you get them around, these meals delivered, it says on meals, by car. >> we have 2.5 million volunteers out there delivering. >> must be a great feeling when you show up with lunch. >> that's right. >> you're such a happy man. see wh...

In these parts of the budget. that's already been done, so the sequester is on top of this. the question is whether people like senator mccain, senator lindsey graham, who have real concerns and understandably with the very deep cuts on the military side, which are also across the board and are affecting military readiness, whether they will then say, look, we need to come together to replace the sequester and we're willing to look at cuts in other areas of the budgets, for example, i've proposed we get rid of excessive direct subsidies. but we've also said, and you started your program about ...