deadline for either withdrawal or anything else. something he criticized his predecessor for doing back in 2013. it s worth noticing u.s. spending on rebuilding of afghanistan now tops 190 billion. but much more importantly than money 2,388 u.s. service members have given their lives fighting there since 2001. joining me now, congressman, democrat from rhode island. he sits on the house armed services committee and homeland security committee. congressman, good to see you. thank you for being with us. good afternoon, ali. what are you hoping for hear from president trump regarding renewed afghanistan strategy? well, a continued strategy that makes it clear that we are going to deny the taliban or al qaeda safe havens in afghanistan to plot and plan against the united states but also the strategy of how we re going to more quickly transfer security control to the afghan people,
enough bang for the buck eliminating all the loopholes and getting it down toúmñ?ñ?ñ 2y adding in the loopholes. if you eliminate the loopholes and take it to 25, is there enough bang for the buck. i don t think so. eric: it just seemed to be another example of how the pre-compromising when they re not even in the states they have to do that yetzzñ?ñ?ñ. we are actually in that stage. they just came out with their estimate for the budget deficit for the next ten years and it s terrifying. they are way off on that because they just made the last one a few months ago and there are ready 190 billion from where they were then. let s just say the numbers are so large that 190 billion is a drop in the bucket. not to me or you. but look, we don t even know why there should be a corporate tax
families who will go hungry if the president s cuts to food and aid are enacted. fasting in solidarity. talk to me about your message. first of all, let me just say this budget is a disaster. it s cruel and heartless. specifically with regard to food assistance, the president cuts $190 billion. 47% of those receiving s.n.a.p. benefits are children. he eliminates the food for peace program, our international food assistance program. also, let me just say why another reason why i think this is such a cruel budget. he actually zeros out all of our programs as it relates to the special olympics, the disabled children. he cuts meals on wheels. they eliminate after school programs. this is really terrible.
potatoes. in fairness, there s $130 billion in the plan now for things like this. right. so they re about $190 billion short. let s put it that way. more or less. just $190 billion. more or less. part of the issue here, these high-risk pools which essentially is what they re talking about, right? so the idea is you re not in the same risk pool with everyone else. you have diabetes. you have cancer. you have a pre-existing condition. you go into this separate pool. this is a model that s been tried from a policy standpoint numerous times. this is why we got obamacare frankly because we had this in 30 or 35 states before 2010 and it didn t work. there was never enough money. people even with very serious illnesses often still couldn t get insurance and they had to wait, pay out of their own pocket for six months or a year before they got it. and the reason we got the affordable care act was everybody said this doesn t work. now we re going back to it. now, you ve been writi
so giving $8 billion over five years and who knows what after this is obviously very small potatoes. in fairness, there s $130 billion in the plan now for things like this. right. so they re about $190 billion short. let s put it that way. more or less. just $190 billion. more or less. part of the issue here, these high-risk pools which essentially is what they re talking about, right? so the idea is you re not in the same risk pool with everyone else. you have diabetes. you have cancer. you have a pre-existing condition. you go into this separate pool. this is a model that s been