as much as a billion dollars in foreign aid that he s talking about perhaps doing away with are two allies, egypt and jordan. does he really mean what he says about cutting aid either to countries like egypt and jordan or to the u.n. itself? there are a couple of very important things that happened in the united nations this week, and you re covering one of them, and that is recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. keep in mind in 1995 congress voted overwhelmingly that s what the american position would be and votedç 90-0 with 10 abstentions last year. it is a policy that is represented by many americans, the president followed through on a campaign promise. also last week there was a vote 15-0 to help put additional sanctions on north korea. that is something that s been underreported. the president s leadership with ambassador with haley in bringing the united nations together in isolating north korea, that is far more important chris: but will the president go ahead an
be 20 million more today than there are. and so, yes, 9 million have signed up, but with it s way short of the estimates. it continues to collapse. what the administration s looking to do is shore up the markets through administrative actions we can take such as you saw the president sign an executive order allowingç associated health plans that more people can pool their resources together to help lower premiums. we will continue to take administrative action on obamacare. chris: finally, i want to ask you about foreign affairs issues. president trump issued a threat to countries at the u.n. not to to oppose his decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. here he is. they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us? well, we re watching those votes. let em vote against us. we ll save a lot. we don t care. chris: in the end, 128 countries ignored the president s threat and is votp against his new policy. but the f
chris: for all the focus on domestic policy, president trump also had an am pushes foreign policy ambitious foreign policy agenda this year. joining me now, the top democrat on the foreign relations committee, ben cardin. happy holidays, and welcome back to fox news sunday, senator. you just heard marc short, the white house director, do you see areas of compromise in the new congress, or is it going to be all politics all the time? i think we ll know very early. getting the budget done. we re already three months into this fiscal year, and we don t have a budget. the way the budget is handled, i think, will be an indicator of whether we can have bipartisan cooperation. it s not just the budget for the year, we have disaster relief for the people of texas and florida, california and puerto rico, we have the immigration issues that need to be dealt
congress? i talked to secretary tillerson earlier this week. i support the administration s decision to provide these types of defensive weapons for the ukrainians. it s a clear message to russia that we will not allow them to continue to compromise the sovereignty of ukraine. russia will continue to push as far as they can. it was important for the united states to tell russia that we will support ukraine s ability to defend itself, so i support the decision. chris: overall, how do you think the administration has doneç ts first year in foreign policy, and are are you troubled that we have a secretary of state, rex tillerson, who almost everybody in washington thinks is going to be gone within a year? has he lost his credibility as he travels the world representing this country? in many respects our foreign policy is inconsistent. we ll have a policy coming out of state department or coming out from people that are
administration, but the president is not speaking to it because that s not his language. never has been. there is a remarkable gap, though, between what we are used to having from u.s. administrations about the world whenever barack obama took over, focus on domestic policy. send hillary clinton around the world. and tillerson doesn t speak like this. a major gap there. we ll see what happens in the week ahead. a lot of pressing foreign policy issues front and center. see what happens. up next, what chaos? the president welcomes in a new chief of staff and said for the most part, all is well. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won t have to worry about replacing your car because you ll get the full value back including depreciation. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call