fight. when you are talking about no entitlements touched. i didn t hear that from mick mulvaney. i heard let s wait and see what it looks like in the real budget in may. two points. first on what we heard from the omb director, i think it s indisputable when you look at the outline of the document, president trump is following through on what he said he would do on the campaign trail, and that s a feather in his cap. you have to give them back. unfortunately one of the things he said he wouldn t do on the campaign trail was reform entitlements, and that s a mathematical necessity. jonah went through some of the numbers for you can t get from here to there in terms of making the debt problem sustainable without serious entitlement reforms for future seniors. my hope, especially someone in the millennial generation, i am being forced to pay into these programs, social security and medicare, everything a paycheck for years but the budget folks tell us the actuaries, if you
it expressed some hope over. but where s the money going to come from? if it s going to be a priority, that s fine. you could make an argument for federal spending on these issues, certainly not to follow in the footsteps of the obama stimulus early on with all those shovel-ready jobs that never materialized. bret: we are hearing that wilbur ross has been working on getting money for the public-private partnership. that will possibly be an element of the infrastructure plan but we don t have a lot of specific specifics. there is reason to suspect, at least you hear it a bit, and i think donald trump is sincere that he wants to do a big infrastructure thing but the political people want the issue of an infrastructure push because it s the one thing that s very difficult for democrats to be against. it s basically stealing an issue
fight. when you are talking about no entitlements touched. i didn t hear that from mick mulvaney. i heard let s wait and see what it looks like in the real budget in may. two points. first on what we heard from the omb director, i think it s indisputable when you look at the outline of the document, president trump is following through on what he said he would do on the campaign trail, and that s a feather in his cap. you have to give them back. unfortunately one of the things he said he wouldn t do on the campaign trail was reform entitlements, and that s a mathematical necessity. jonah went through some of the numbers for you can t get from here to there in terms of making the debt problem sustainable without serious entitlement reforms for future seniors. my hope, especially someone in the millennial generation, i am being forced to pay into these programs, social security and medicare, everything a paycheck for years but the budget folks tell us the actuaries, if you
it expressed some hope over. but where s the money going to come from? if it s going to be a priority, that s fine. you could make an argument for federal spending on these issues, certainly not to follow in the footsteps of the obama stimulus early on with all those shovel-ready jobs that never materialized. bret: we are hearing that wilbur ross has been working on getting money for the public-private partnership. that will possibly be an element of the infrastructure plan but we don t have a lot of specific specifics. there is reason to suspect, at least you hear it a bit, and i think donald trump is sincere that he wants to do a big infrastructure thing but the political people want the issue of an infrastructure push because it s the one thing that s very difficult for democrats to be against. it s basically stealing an issue