Overall number in the law, the budget control act, requesting basically a little bit over 1 trillion. 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for. Within that number, he really departed from the budget control act numbers, and he requested a lot more for defense programs. About 54 billion for security related programs. And covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. So thats a violation of the budget control act there. But more than that, its very politically unpopular. Yes members really like the , defense spending increase, but they dont like taking it out of nondefense programs agriculture cut more than 20 . Transportation, federal housing programs cut 15 . Labor, health, Education Programs cut similarly. State Department Programs cut tremendously. And congress is rejecting that. They dont really have their own plan nailed down. While they are inclined to give a lot more to defense, they are not as interested in those nondefense spending cuts. It matters of
Found his style raw. Turned to eb white his concerns were not mine. Hemingway. Then i picked up George Orwell. He was contemporary. It feels fresh. It can take a paragraph out of many of his essays, job it into todays newspaper, and it would fit right in. I started diving into orwell. Why did he feel so fresh and contemporary russian mark contemporary . This resonates with our own time. Paralleled by another hero of mine come Winston Churchill. Such different people in so many ways, yet they keep coming together on the question on how you preserve individual liberty . And we were agent talking about writing a book about the vietnam war. I decided after research, i cannot do it without research and interviews. Onecided to do a book churchill and orwell. Men only buy books on three ii ts, world war host how close is this book to what you set out to do . Tom this is the book i hoped to write, but it is not the book i first set out to write. I sent it out to my longterm editor, six books w
With author thomas ricks. And later, another look at that discussion from washington journal about the trump administrations approach to Foreign Policy. Announcer this week on q a, author and Foreign Policy magazine blogger, thomas ricks. Host tom ricks, let up to the time that you started writing churchill and orwell. Tom i was saying a farewell to journalism for myself and becoming a fulltime book writer. I was wondering who would be remembered if any. Started with h. L. Minkin. I found his style raw. I turned to eb white. Style. Ose his concerns werent mine. Pearlman. I still dont see why hes funny. Hemmingway, blowhard. Then i picked up George Orwell. His prose style seems contemporary. It feels fresh. Ou could take a paragraph out of many of his essays and drop it into todays newspaper, and it would fit right in. I started diving into orwell. Why did he feel so fresh and contemporary. Him, i was ead of struck, boy, this resonates with our own time. Then i began thinking how orwell
Please silence your phones. Welcome our interviewer, kolen mcmahan. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming to prisones row lit fest and im thrilled to be here today with tom ricks who as written several books. His brief books, the generals, and fiasco, which is a New York Times number one best seller. This one is also on the bestseller list, charting near i think last week for the first time. Congratulations on that. First question is bat previous book, actually. Fiasco. Given the state of affair today, international, national affairs, do you wish that maybe you had held back on titling the book fiasco. Its a little bit close to home on that question. Youre right, i never thought wed be living in a situation were living in this country no. Host lets talk about this book. Churchill and orwell, the fog for freedom. Im going to read one small passage which tells you the theme of the book and then ask tom to talk about why he whose these two guys. The people in my view
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