bret: does president trump feel as passionate about that issue as candidate trump did? absolutely. i think you just saw it from his words from his mouth and that s what i see every time i talk with him about the budget. every time i talk to him about deficits and the national debt. has put forward record spending reductions because he made a commitment to the american people that he was going to fix our fiscal imbalances as a country. and we have put forward those proposals as an administration and we need congress to come along beside us and enact these into law. bret: we thank you for your time and we ll be following it? thanks, bret. bret: up next, boeing in the hot seat after two new 737 jets crash just five months apart s expenses .while helping plan, invest and protect for the future. so they ll be okay? i think they ll be fine. voya. helping you to
years. 1.9 trillion of that will come from mandatory spending reforms to medicare and medicaid. savings on prescription drugs. discretionary spending will be cut by 5%. the white house says the budget will balance in 2034. seven years later than president trump first promised. senator schumer called the cuts a gut punch to the american people in a statement saying its proposed cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security as well as other numerous middle class programs are devastating but not surprising. budget hawks predict a massive clash. huge defense increases paired with huge domestic discretionary decreases that s going to be where the real fight between the house, the senate and the president are because there is very big disagreements. another potential flash point, there is new work requirement in the budget for people who use federal benefits. people who use medicaid or on food stamps or in public house would go have to fulfill a work requirement of putting in 20 hours a
white house budget director about the plan in a couple of minutes. first to set the budget table chief white house correspondent john roberts live on the north lawn. good evening, john. bret, good evening to you. president trump sent a massive spending request up to capitol hill today $4.7 trillion including $1.1 trillion in deficit spending. of course, the president s budget is just a suggestion and there were plenty of suggestions from democrats today on what he can do with it. ink was barely dry on the new budget before democrats ripped it as dead on arrival. their biggest complaint the president s request for $8.6 billion to complete the border wall. federal resources and front line defenders are overwhelmed at the southern border. in the fiscal year 2020 budget provides sizeable funding of an $8.6 billion for full completion of the wall. the budget asks for $5 billion for the wall in the dhs budget. another 3.6 billion from the defense in military construction budget.
scheduled paycheck. to the best of my knowledge, this marks the first time in our nation s history that service members in a u.s. armed force have not been paid during a lapse in appropriations. nearly 42,000 u.s. coast guard personnel are also active duty military. these men and women serve here at home and abroad. they have d.o.d. e-mails and badges, but their paycheck comes from the dhs budget and not from the d.o.d. budget. that s why they ee re caught i this partial shutdown. their families struggling to make ends meet. service members are not allowed to talk to the media, but we have spoken to some outspoken spouses. take a listen. there s so much stress and it s not something that we should have to go through. i ve spent so much time stressing about this, contacting people. at the end of the day we re a military family and yes we re
fund most of the government, agriculture, treasury, the fbi, allow them to go through, sign them, hold out dhs which includes the wall. gives you another 30 days or whatever number to fight about this. but it gets us out of the majority of this of this shutdown scenario which is now, you know, injuring a lot of people across the country. and we always talk about the 800,000 federal workers. there are tens, probably hundreds of thousands of contractors who service those workers, who serve those agencies who probably will never recover from this. will never get their money back. so i think there is a way out by saying, okay, park rangers have nothing to do with the wall. food stamps have nothing to do with the wall. let s fund those. we ll fight about it in the context of the dhs budget and, you know, we ll live to fight another day. let s get one more that would be one way to