interview he did with tucker. then he said, over the next couple of weeks, you will hear interesting things. that is the bucket that hasn t been filled yet. i know you want top of all of that. john, thank you. i got to point out that every intelligence official who has been asked had said there is no evidence that that happens. maybe news reports i said that but nobody from intel has. martha: thank you. let s bring in our panel on what has been a very busy day. chris stirewalt, richard fowler, and charles hurt. gentlemen, welcome. it was a very spicy news briefing today, we could say. i want to start with this budget. there was a lot in there. you can pick it apart, it leaves the overall budget the same, even though they talk about cuts. chris, let me start with you. there was language and a way of looking at spending in terms of taking it from the taxpayer and giving it to someone else that we don t really hear put that way quite often. absolutely.
it s important to point out that this is a small portion of the budget. it s actually the skinny budget, it s only part of his budget, the full budget is going to come out in mid may, roughly 30% of federal spending. heather: let s take a look at some of the winners. the budget winners were the military spending and border wall and veterans affairs. yeah, the president has made clear he wants to move in the direction of hard power, he wants to build the military back up, it was cut as a percentage. heather: there are some republicans who wanted more. exactly. or one hand you have democrats saying, we don t want to boost military spending and you have republicans saying this isn t enough. he s trying to bring it back in line and he s able to do that with the budget. we will see. heather: no doubt, a lot. in terms of the state department and epa, those are the main ones people were talking about yesterday when this came out. do you think that those numbers
authorized everything? we hope. we actually spend a lot of money on programs that aren t authorized at all. to break it down it s sort of a three-step process, you have to budget for it first, then authorize it then you have to appropriate it. but a lot of program we spent money on for years have been unauthorized. most used to be authorized and simply lapse and some were never authorized but were simply never appropriated. and yeah, that s not the right way to do it. in fact that s the wrong way to do it. you heard the president talk specifically on the campaign trail with at least 5% reductions and that s what generated this budget. you talk about this budget keeping the promise that is the president made during the course of the campaign, the housing and urban development this budget blueprint calls for a 13% reduction, during the campaign
science and nasa? if you do what we do, go back to the president s speeches, the interviews in talking to him, we tried to identify his priorities. one of the things he told us, i ll sometime looking at america being involved in space exploration. the overall top line number at nasa is reduced be i a small fraction, individual line items that deal with specifically space exploration are plussed up. part of the intent there is to promote exactly what you just talked about. yes, sir. your own experience in the house tells you that a lot of these cuts haven t been voted for before. you consider this budget an opening bid and do you expect a lot of push-back from the republican s on the cuts? and those of us that traveled with the president he said he didn t want to touch social security, medicare, the big entitlements. the fact that s not in this budget, is that a signal that
spending. first of all, the state department, its budget is going to go down 28%. they are cutting $10.1 billion from the state department budget. e.p.a. will see a 31% decrease, which will include the eventual elimination of 3200 jobs. hhs will see a 15.1 billion-dollars reduction that s 17.9%. that will include a dramatic reorganization of the national institutes of health. the president also proposes to end funding for the national endowment for the arts and corporation for public broadcasting among other agencies. and then as well other doubts funding, the global climate change initiative will go away and united states will end payments to the u.n. green climate fund. the omb director mick mulvaney said it s what the president ran on and what the president got elected on and what they are delivering today. here he is. you had an america first candidate. america first president and now america first budget. more money to defend the