would now have some of their benefits delivered as a nonperishable food items, we are talking about juice, greens, cereal, pasta, peanut butter along with fruits and vegetables and canned meats. the usda has dubbed the program america s harvest box. office of management and budget director mick mulvaney has likened it to blue apron, the companies that delivers uncooked meals, here he is. it lowers the cost to us because we can buy prices at wholesale, we also make sure they are getting nutritious foo food. the program would save the federal government an estimated $129 billion over ten years. they trump administration is getting big time pushback for use in the blue apron analogy because critics say blue apron meals run about $10 apiece while food stamp meals averages 1.37.
for many, many years with presidents of both parties and that is one of the costs of the modern presidency and i ve never begrudged a president the cost of security as he moves around the country. respectfully, sir, they have not all flown to their private resort every weekend at the cost of $3 million nor have they kept a separate resident in trump tower. oh, come on now. $183 million a year. pardon me, but i remember the cost of obama trips to hawaii, they were enormous. i never criticized them they are far below the current projected cost of this president. let me ask you this. if you think the presidential travel is a moot issue, do you honestly think that, say, a single mother in detroit would choose to pay $1.37, which is what it costs her for the corporation for public broadcasting for sesame street or choose to pay the salaries of all the members in congress. i think sesame street is a commercially viable enterprise and can more than stand on its own two feet.
they are far below the current projected cost of this president. let me ask you this. if you think the presidential travel is a moot issue, do you honestly think that, say, a single mother in detroit would choose to pay $1.37, which is what it costs her for the corporation for public broadcasting for sesame street or choose to pay the salaries of all the members in congress. i think sesame street is a commercially viable enterprise and can more than stand on its own two feet. which do you think she d rather pay for? i think she would i don t think she d rather y for either. i think she would rather see a frugal government that spends its money as wisely and carefully as she spends what s left after we take her money. so we ve got we re going to cut the budget on these discretionary items but there s going to be an $800 billion tax cut that happens through the repeal of the aca, about $600 billion of that goes to the top 2%. those are households that have been doing be
announcement. we are expecting to hear from city officials, the mayor, potentially the police chief after we hear from the d.o.j. today. carol? sarah sidner reporting live from ferguson missouri this morning. let s dig deeper with jeff rorda. a former missouri state representative and has staunchly supported missouri law enforcement officers and their tactics. he joins me live. welcome, sir. welcome, carol. glad you re here. last year you told cbs, quote, whatever has happened in america to cause these feelings of resentment in the black community, it is not a failure of law enforcement. but if 85% of vehicle stops involve black drivers and 93% of people arrested were african-american in a two-year period how can that be true? let s put these numbers in perspective, carol. the state disparity index is 1.52. ferguson s is 1.37. they re well below the state average. that s every police department
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