good morning. people don t like it when you take things away and that s why budget proposals are almost never entirely popular even when more on track to go $20 trillion into debt as a nation. here are some of the winners in the president s budget, defense is by far the big winner and is expected to see a 10% increase to its budget, homeland security and veterans affairs will see uptick as well, the losers are lead by the environmental protection agency as a whole along with various programs with the state department and some cut that is hollywood is not too happy about at all. the budget calls for the elimination of funding to a number of arts and humanities programs including both national endowment for the arts an humanities as well as the corporation for public broadcasting. actors and artists flooded twitter with their disgusting including comedian, it seems insane to have to defend the arts but here we are, the #right to bear arts is what makes us
wrong to take something from a single mother of two in the form of taxes or a minor who is trying to put food on his table, in order to give it to a program that is failing as i think somewhat a revolutionary thought. not the kind of language we hear spoken in washington every day. not even failing. you are just taking the money from the mother come with a single mother with a child, in order to give it to some program may be as a break, great program. it is still something we have to say, is this right? martha: i want to circle back. i want to get your thoughts on the other part of the briefing, which was combustible. something else. what did you think? we see this side of trump that gives hope for his supporters. this is going to work, this budget, maybe he is doing deals, selling the health care plan. then, the stuff that we are reminded of the troubles he had when he was running for president when he gets stuck on something or when he first came into office. there is 5 millio
i put myself in the shoes of that steelworker and ohio. the coalminer, the coal mining family in west virginia. the mother of two in detroit. and i really go to those folks, look them in the audience a come i want to take money from you and give them to corporation for public broadcasting. i will cut the wasteful government spending. the president is beholding to none of that. the president has drafted a budget for the entire nation. and my first budget report to congress, i m going to ask for the elimination of the defense sequester. we had america first and america first candidate. we now have an america first president and it shouldn t be surprising that we have an america first budget. martha: can they make that happen? first, chief white house correspondent john roberts takes us through this today. good evening. the new budget of the president released today could be described in this way.
education, 9.2, hud, 6.2, agriculture department and epa and state department 13.5 and 11 billion for other departments. so a lot of people taking a cut here. it s very broad-base cuts. some big cuts in a few department. the state department is a big one, education, health and human services. the president is asking every single agency, every single department almost to make a cut because he wants to shift money to homeland security and defense. heather: equal amount of cuts. they don t want to add for the deficit for next year. they want to make sure that increase is offset by a cut somewhere else and he s able to do that with this cut. heather: if he promised it on the campaign trail it is in this budget. you certainly can t argue, he s keeping promises here. everything he said he wants to do he s doing.
this is what hollywood had to say. comedian wrote on twitter, it seems insane to have to defend the arts but here we are, right to bear arts is what makes us great. without science and arts, who are we? tweeting, hello, dear, at what point will you be telling your children that your father killed actors jamie lee curtis tweeted, after war are fought, what remains are people, nature and culture. he cannot cut us out of the picture. the white house is defending the budget saying our nation facing debt, it can t justify giving money to some programs. one of the most compassionate things we can do. we are trying to focus on recipients of money and it s compassionate to say, we are not going to ask for your hard-earned money anymore.