great without science and arts, who are we. billy tweeted, right to president daughter s iván cay, hello, dear, at what point will you be telling your child that your father killed after all the wars are fought, what remains are people, a and culture. trump can try but he cannot cut us out of the picture. now, despite those proposed cuts to arts and humanities it s the state department that s poised to be one of the hardest hit losing 28% of the budget. yesterday in tokyo secretary of state rex tillerson he is just fine with that. i m confident that with the input of the men and women of the state department, we are going to construct a way forward that allows us to be much more effective, much for efficient and be able to do a lot with fewer dollars. at the white house director mick mulvaney defended.
would have taken care of it. you don t pay $38 million, that s the dumbest thing i have ever heard. good grief that s off the rails. heather: that s what he thinks. president trump revealing first budget proposal laying out plans to deliver on campaign promises. one of the commitments i made is we are going to straighten out the whole situation for our veterans. we build a military so great that none will dare to challenge it. we will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border. heather: so where exactly is the money going, here to break down the budget is the chair of business and finance at king s college in new york city, bryan, thank you for coming so early. great to be here. heather: budget losers, this is where cuts will be made.
one of the hardest hit is defense budget. rex tillerson thinks it s a good thing. i m confident that with the input of the men and women of the state department, we are going to construct a way forward that allows us to be much more effective and be able to do a lot with fewer dollars. as we have been talking about, the keyword here is proposed budget because it still has to be approved by congress and yesterday members on both sides of the aisle expressed a lot of concerns with the president s budget and said there will be changes. heather: no one ever likes to hear about anyone ever losing their job. specially on st. patty s day. the immigration policies are now working, agents arresting a murderer. the arrest of mora is latest
$54 billion for the pentagon, and billions in cuts to domestic and foreign aid programs. the white house pressed on after school programs and meals on wheels and the american people paying the tab for that wall, at least for now. abc s mary bruce on capitol hill tonight. reporter: tonight, the white house touting and defending a budget that would dramatically scramble the nation s spending priorities. we ll remind you we re calling it the american budget. we are an america first candidate, and you have a america first president, and it shouldn t surprise anybody we have an america first budget. reporter: the big winners, military spending. a whopping $54 billion request. veteran affairs and homeland security. the president asking for a combined $4.1 billion in tax payer money to start building his border wall, though trump has promised mexico will ultimately foot the bill.
white house. a look at some of the winners and losers. good evening. there are two words that the president s budget director used to describe the budget, mick mulvaney saying this is all about hard power. in putting together the discretionary budget, mick mulvaney said he listened to the promises the president made during the campaign and created a budget policy for each and every one. we had an america first candidate. we now have an america first president and we have an america first budget. first priority is defense spending, 10% bump, $54 billion. homeland security gets an additional 3 billion while veterans affairs will add $4.4 billion. 1.5 billion will be tapped to begin construction of the border wall with 2.6 billion mark may next year. to offset the increases, state department faces a 20% cut. most of the $10 billion slashed