tax dollars. we are so backwards in what we do. we give to people at the end of day and we forget the people that have done amazing things for our country. look, you know this administration is trying to get everybody kind of under the old obama fold here. on our folks and medical care and everything under the sun and we can take care of you. eric: nanny state on steroids? there is no accountability. fcc went in and looked at all of those that were on the cellphone program receiving these free cellphones and 41% could not prove eligibility. this is government wasted dollars and the government is not checking up who has got them. program didn t start under president obama but it certainly expanded under president obama. it was $819 million program, last year they spent $2.2 billion.
gushing into the gulf every day is an awful lot. but this terms of the the country s daily use of petroleum, it is barely a drop in the proverbial barrel. every single day america uses roughly 19.5 million barrels, or almost 819 million gallons of oil mostly for transportation according to the government s energy information administration. in comparison we re told the total amount leaked into the gulf since last month s rig explosion is 95,000 barrels, or 4 million gallons. a small fraction of a single day s consumption, still the environmental impact could be with us for many years. first, goldman sachs, now is the justice department looking at morgan stanley s role in the financial melt down of 2008? back in a moment.
cybersecurity order and that was signed intentionally. and lastly, the president s fy 18 budget allocated $819 million. it dedicated an increase of $1.5 billion across all departments involved in protecting cyberspace. so for my perspective, both his first budget request and his future ones have right sized that amount of money for keeping america safe and that might answer all three components of your question. so with that, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. political motivations that these cybersecurity you mentioned facebook, they re very political, or crowd strike i m sure he ll be happy to come back to questions later. actually, he was wrong about one thing. i would gladly let him stay up here and talk cybersecurity. a few announcements and i ll get to all of your many pressing questions. i would like to announce that the president just signed
the bat out on her. that s who you want representing this country. you re not the only ones. everyone from david koch and roger ailes is reportedly asking him to get in, and while he says he s not running, he s certainly being a bit of a tease. look, like all of the compassionate conservative republicans he s making the gop pilgrimage to the reagan presidential library. tonight he ll give a speech there called real american exceptionalism. but let s take a look at his view of american exceptionalism. it means trying to cut $500 million from medicaid last year. it means vetoing a tax increase for millionaires that would have generated $637 million for his state, all while cutting $819