welcome back, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside louis burgdorf. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. president trump has formally submitted his 2020 budget to congress and it appears his promises to slash the government's debt will be easier said than done. he's proposing a $4.75 trillion budget with a focus on increasing military spending. the defense department's budget is to be boosted by $33 billion to $718 billion or more than half of the entire proposed federal discretionary budget. the plan also calls for $8.6 billion to be set aside for construction of trump's wall along the southern border with mexico. the budget would slash $845 billion from medicare over the next ten years. it would also remove $241 billion from medicaid over that same period. now the blueprint also aims to
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