and, yet, you know, one of the interesting things about this is that we have seen a lot of very early and very stiff resistance from members in the president s own party. particularly on some of these cuts to the state department. jon: well, and for instance the e.p.a., a cut of 30%, that is actually bigger than his own e.p.a. administrator wanted. right. and, you know, this is this is a president who has been critical of the e.p.a. he has promised to roll back regulations. so it s not necessarily surprising. i think that he will not get everything that he wants, including possibly those large a cut that large to that organization. but, also, that agency. also, you know, there is contradictions in his budget a president who said that he wants to eliminate all disease and, yet, is he cutting the national institutes of health by or proposing to cut some 20%. there are some things that would potentially hurt some of his supporters. there is a provision in there that would cut subs
official event. a couple reasons we re trying to figure out. answers are in short supply on this. one, they want to control the event, to try to limit protes r protesters and things. two, they want to use their list of supporters they have from the campaign to pack the auditorium tomorrow night in nashville. interesting that we have a president already campaigning. i recall him criticizing the last president for campaigning. that was then, this is now. an official event tomorrow in michigan. he ll meet with rick snyder, who is the governor of that state. one tough nerd, that was his selling point. and also car company ceos, talking about rolling back obama fuel standards. this will give him a chance, obviously, to be out of washington, in the midwest, and to focus on things he wants to focus on. jobs and rolling back regulations. jackie, quickly. speak of michigan, one of the republican states that has medicaid expansion. i m watching snyder and 16 other 15 other governor in
plans money and helped keep costs down. we have got to instill more competition in medicine, jennifer. can you give us an update on the effort to roll back regulations. regulatory reform task force identified any to be rolled back and repealed? i think they have had their work cut out for them. they started as the president has met with different industries and companies, corporations, associations, that is a constant subject of discussion, which is those regulatory aspects of our economy that are keeping companies from growing and expanding and hiring. and so i know that the domestic policy team and others have been working on that. and if i can get further updates on specific legislation, or excuse me specific regulatory action i ll get back to you. halle? two topics for you. one is just with us i m trying to get clarity on something my colleagues have tried to follow up on as well. you said the president stands by
us as in tax payers. cnn correspondent tom foreman joins me to breakdown the numbers. tom, the president isn t looking just to spend, but he also wants to cut. it s complicated. there is a lot going on here. the budget the president wants is far reaching and it s ambitious, it fits neatly with many of his campaign promises to roll back regulations, cut waste, disrupt washington, but now what he wants is going to collide with what congress will give him and the results could be wildly unpredictable. even for a billionaire president, the budget proposal is a whopper. starting with the trillion dollars for infrastructure, new bridges, roads, dams, power lines. financed through both public and private capital, creating millions of new jobs. [ applause ] reporter: also on the wish list, a $54 billion or 10% increase for the military, which already accounts for more than half of all discretionary
insurance industry it sounded like. on the other side of that the biggest thing he said was no more mandates. if there is no mandate, think about it. if there is no mandate the only quote, unquote fiscally responsible part of obamacare was the mandate by compelling people to purchase insurance if they didn t want to to bring young and healthy people into the risk pool to bring down the costs for older, sicker people and bringing fines for individuals who don t do that was the fiscally sound part of it that moderate democrats wanted. if you blow that up things will get really expensive really fast or you ve got to come up with some alternative that we haven t heard of yet. shannon: he also for the democrats gave them something i saw people from both sides of the aisle cheering for, paid family leave and that concerns a lot of people who say other mandate on business owners talking about rolling back regulations, a burden on people to figure ou how to pay for it but something he was of