other elements intended to carry out the punishment that the president talked about? i m not familiar with that line item and homeland. there s increases in homeland that deal with this topic. you ll see an increase in homeland for increase in den tension facilities. it s a fairly significant increase. the president has said he wants to stop the catch and release program. he just signed an executive order to do that. we fund that. we increase the amount of money for detention facilities for folks coming into the country illegally. i ll give you a follow up. a question about the cuts you re making to transportation and housing. you said those will be paid for later with other appropriations, but this would be balanced. i know you ve been a fiscal hawk yourself. sounds like a bit of a shell game where you re saying now this is a balanced budget but you re not stopping to pay for other things because they ll be paid for later. all this stuff has to get paid
fact, i don t believe just in the last week of time the people we ve talked to, i don t think there was an actual tap of trump tower. president obama wouldn t physically go over and wire tap trump tower so now you have to decide, as i mentioned to you last week, are you going to take the tweets literally? if you are, then clearly the president was wrong. the fbi director, james comey, is going to face questions about the president s claim when he testified before the house intelligence committee on monday. just out this morning, the white house is unveiling its spending priorities today in what it s calling the america first budget. and what the washington post says could be the biggest cut backs to federal programs sips the draw down after world war ii. president trump s first budget proposal includes a $54 billion increase in defense spending, a 9% jump, as well as 7% increase to homeland security and a 6% bump for veterans affairs. the administration says the increases will be off
respond. it s not like the working class people of america are stupid and have no idea what s coming. they needed someone to shake up washington, d.c. you know i have been critical of donald trump. but this is what the american people voted for. if you think he s this horrible dangerous unhinged liar, what does that say about your party, who lost to him, bernard? it says we did not have a good message for what working class people and we better find one in 2018 and 2020 and save the republic for this guy. to be honest that s exactly how i feel. melissa: let s end on that note. thank you, gentlemen. enjoyed being with both of you. the white house briefing set to start at any moment with an appearance from the omb director who will talk about the president s america first budget. plus house speaker paul ryan talking about the ambitious gop agenda and why he thinks republicans will be successful in getting what they want. every day we talk, we compare notes. our teams are fused an
spend less money overseas. this came up the other day, hard power versus soft power. there s a very deliberate attempt to send a message to allies, india and other countries that this is a hard power budget, this administration intends to change course from a soft power budget to a hard power budget. one more. yes, ma am. can you explain more about what message the president is trying to send by eliminating a lot of funding for science and climate change research and just a follow-up later. sure. a couple different messages when we talk about science and climate change. let s deal with them separately. on science we re going to focus on the core function. there s reductions for example i think in the nih, national
south carolina, senators represent an entire state. we re always dealing with special interests from back home. dealing with lobbyist back home. the president is beholden to none of that. the president drafted a budget for the entire nation because that s who he sees himself representing. he did not ask lobbyists for special input and didn t focus on how these programs might impact a specific congressional district but we know that going into it and the message we are sending to the hill is we want more money for the things the president talked about national security at the top and don t want to add to the deficit. if congress has another way, we re happy to talk about it. the united nations says the world is facing the largest humanitarian crisis, 20 million people in just four countries facing starvation or famine and yet you re cutting funding to