sector and show a commitment on the administration s part towards science and nasa. it does, if you go back to the speeches the president made and talking about his prioritiespriorities and he said i m still interested in the united states being involved in space exploration, but individual line items that deal with specifically space exploration is up. and part of it is to promote what you just talked about. experience in the house tells you that a lot of these cuts haven t been voted for before, do you consider this budget an opening bid and do you expect a lot of pushback from republicans on the specificity and the size of these cuts secondly to take your word on the president s words said he didn t want to
promise to with hold from sanctuary cities and are there others of the president to carry that out? i m not that particular with this, also homeland and increases in homeland that deal with this, you re going to see an increase in homeland for increase in detention facilities. it s significant because the president has said he wants the stop catch and release and he signed an executive order to do that and increased the amount of money for detention facilities. a follow-up to the questions about the cuts you re making to things like transportation and housing. you said those will be paid for later with other appropriations but said this would be balanced and it sounds like a bit of a shell game where you re saying now this is a balanced budget but now saying you re not stopping to pay for other
from? reporter: well, that s billions of dollars, melissa. almost 30% of the budget. much would come from foreign assistance what the united states pays to the united nations in peace keeping missions. in tokyo, japan, rex tillerson was asked about those cuts and defended them. he said the current state department budget is historically high and that eventually down the line the united states will be less directly involved in military conflicts around the world and that other nations will step up and provide more when it comes to foreign assistance. you heard folks like general mattis who are saying when the united states spends on foreign aid, it makes the world a more peaceful, a better place and negates the lead down the future for the u.s. to have to come in with military involvement. mitch mcconnell was asked about this last month, if congress would accept the nearly 37% cut to the state department budget. mcconnell responded probably not. melissa? melissa: what is secretary t
united states to bring hackers to justice. like i said yesterday, as though this is a lawful enforcement action, anything beyond that i would direct you to the department of justice and the fbi for further details. before i continue, let me turn it over director mulvaney to talk about the budget. director? thanks very much. good afternoon. happy day before st. patrick s day, also known as budget day. most of you heard me talk about the budget before. i m not going to say much in opening, this is the america first budget. we have an america first budget. we have an america first budget and shouldn t surprise me that we have an america first bucket. we ve seen the details. $54 billion of additional defense spending. more details on where that money is going. we re seeing increases at the v.a., increases within the department of justice for law enforcement.
those programs will remain untouched and the federal budget said, that ignored 70% of spending and i ll deal with the second one first. the president will keep his promises he kept on the campaign trail. no reference in social security here. no reference to medicare here. no reference to medicaid here or the other mandatory programs. that s not what this budget is. this is the discretionary part of the budget. half is defense and the other half is everything else. so because it s not here doesn t mean we re dodging the issue. you would never see any budget blueprint that deals with the spending numbers. social security, medicare and medicaid. 0 the other question not being popular on the hill. i can recognize that. i ve been on the hill enough to know that some of these are very unpopular. keep in mind, the president is in a unique position. i ve been a member of congress. i represented 700,000 in south carolina. it was my constituency, my