aim at republicans yet again. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: we made it to wednesday, top of the mountain, long slide into the weekend from here. i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. in a rare news conference the president said he felt yesterday s meeting with congressional leadership was productive, but speaker mccarthy proclaimed there was no new movement and warned time is running out to avoid an economic catastrophe. sandra: complete coverage begins now. steve danes is standing by. john: our senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. do democrats really know what republicans would cut? john, not really. congress funded veterans programs and meals on wheels late last year, that s why republicans believe democrats are trying to scare people about potential cuts. are those cuts that you guys talk about with the v.a., that s not real money, because it s not an appropriation.
you are not going to cut medicare, not that s right, i said well you know you are on camera, they can see you. [laughter] well, so farther not cutting social security so far. and not only do they rule out any new revenue, still determined to make permanent the $2 trillion tax cuts due to expire, the trump tax cuts, without paying a penny of it. here is what that leaves us with, basic sort of math. it leaves us with the requirement to cut 22% of everything else in the budget in order to meet the requirements they are demanding that we live with the 2022 budget numbers. speaker and republicans don t like that i point that out. but that s not my opinion. it s just basic math. and here is what it does. it makes huge cuts in important programs for millions of working and middle class americans,
programs they count on. according to estimates, the republican bill would put 21 million people at risk of losing medicaid, including 2.3 million people here in new york state and 78,000 people right here in westchester county. it s devastating. it s not right. republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers, 30,000, including 11,000 fbi agents, 2,000 border agents, dea agents and so on. they have cut that s in order to meet the requirement, risks shutting down 375 air traffic control towers, including five here in new york state like westchester county airport, don t have enough personnel and i ve long believed we have many obligations as a nation, but you ve heard me say this before, apologize for repeating it, but we only have one truly sacred obligation, we
mexican cartels? we are the strongest nation on the face of the earth and don t have operational control of the southern border. criminal cartels in mexico do and he gave it to them. this man lies under oath, embarrassment to the position he holds this. is on him, all of this. he took the most secure border in my lifetime and created this. this is on him. and i ve said for two years he needs to be impeached, the men and women of the border patrol don t respect him. the men and the women of the border patrol, thank god for the state of texas governor abbott should be the secretary of homeland secretary. he s done more to secure the border than anybody. john: i think he likes being governor of texas, at least for the moment. good to talk to you. thank you so much, appreciate it. you ve got it. john: a lot more ahead on this as well, sandra, throughout the afternoon. sandra: just the numbers
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