administration already saying one element of his new proposed budget will be a $54 billion increase in defense and law enforcement, national security spending. listen to how the president said he would pay for that when he met with the nation s governors. we re going to do more with less. i get involved in an airplane contract. i got involved in some other contracts, and we cut the hell out of the prices. i mean, we saved a lot much money. it s about a 10% increase in defense related spending. no cuts in social security, medicare, medicaid. president wants to have massive tax cuts, significant tax cuts. not just for the middle class, but for the wealthy as well. so far they are saying, well, there will be some cuts in the e.p.a., the environmental protection agency, and the state
department. some foreign aid. does that add up to $54 billion? it s very hard to accomplish these types of numbers, wolf. look at the e.p.a. and foreign aid, if we zeroed out those things, that would give you your $54 billion. then there would be no e.p.a. or yes. the fact of the matter is he says we re going to do more with less. we ve been doing that for a number of years. that part of the budget, which we call discretionary that congress appropriateates every year, exclusd defense, is on current trends. current law headed for the lowest since the eisenhower era. it is already being squeezed. in spite of that, we have the deficit going from $600 billion to $1 trillion a year ten years from now mostly because of social security and medicare, which alone will grow by almost $1 trillion a year. those are the two areas that the president has declared off limits. i think the bottom line is not only is there a big question about how does he pay for the military spending, but how do
process. that is not going to be easy, but i think through that we re going to see increased economic growth. he wants an increased defense spending $54 billion. 10% hike. as you know, the united states already spends more on defense than the next seven or eight countries combined, including russia, china, iran, britain, france. all these other countries. at a time when the u.s. has so dramatically reduced foreign military involvement, going down from a couple of hundred thousand troops in iraq and afghanistan to 5,000 right now, why does the u.s. need to dramatically increase defense spend sng. we dramatically cut military spending with sesequester. costs increase every year. as we give people pay raises and benefits and things like that. you have to uncap that and grow just to keep up with the investments. it is other thing i think to keep in mind, though, is dick cheney actually said after desert storm when we obviously it was a very one-sided victory, he actually thanked presid
say they are still investigating the significance of these communications, so to say that this is just a sort of normal back and forth with reporters doesn t really gel with what we know about how this was a white house very concerned about reporting of contacts between trump advisors and russians during the campaign and made an effort to push back, and we know that it was a significant enough effort that the fbi said, no, it s not going to do it. all right, jim, stand by. barbara star, sarah murray, we re going to get back to you. the president clearing laying out some budget priorities today, including increased military spending, law enforcement spending increases, big spending increases of infrastructure and substantial tax cuts. let s discuss with republican congressman adam kinsinger of illinois. he served in iraq and afghanistan. congressman, thanks very much for joining us. you bet. who is going to pay for all the spending increases in defense, law enforcement, huge tax c
trump, promising major increases in u.s. military spending, and questions about his own push to find the source of white house leaks. we re going to go there live as soon as the press secretary shows up. that should be later this hour. the white house, meanwhile, says the magic number in the upcoming budget is $54 billion. that s the amount for the proposed defense and security spending increase as well as proposed budget cuts. listen to this. my first budget will be submitted to the congress next month. this budget will be a public safety and national security budget. very much based on those too with plenty of other things, but very strong, and it will be including a short increase in defense spending to rebuild the depleted military of the united states of america at a time we most need it.