challenge coming up with something that even people just within the republican party can all agree on. he talked about how he s going to be talking about that tomorrow when he meets with governors and other colleagues. but i thought that was interesting from those brief remarks. and you were just talking about the budget outline that the president will unveil will call for a substantial increase in military spending as well as several cuts in federal agencies. since he s a republican who s doing his first budget, is that s probably not a surprise. it s not a surprise, but it s interesting they did it the day before this speech to the congress. that means the president will have to cover it. it s going to be controversial and we re going to start learning how the tradeoffs are very, very difficult in this year and the tradeoffs on the health care side. where the deputy press secretary
rick perry. all these people have served in the military. he s getting a lot of veteran perspectives. he has met with people like pete hegseth who has really great ideas on va reform. he s met with a veteran who is head of the cleveland clinic. he served on the va commission on care. so he s really studied these issues. president-elect trump is taking his time and getting perspectives himself from different individuals who have been involved in these issues, whether it s on the health care side or benefits side or has a veteran themselves. yes, the veterans group heads hasn t met with the president-elect but the transition team has spent a lot of time meeting with them. so their perspective is getting heard. i can grn guarantee you if it s pete or dr. cosgrove or jeff miller, the organizations are going to be heard in this debate. one of the concerns people have about any money going from
secretary for bush 41 and the wife of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. the president-elect also pick add new head of medicare and medicaid today. sima verma, ran the program in ind under governor and now vice president-elect mike pence. cnn s phil mattingly is standing watch at trump tower where another day of trump interviews is on tap. things moving today, phil. reporter: absolutely. it s important to note two of the biggest priorities for the president-elect throughout the campaign, you now have the point people in place. another point, particularly on the health care side of things, brianna. sema verma and tom price. talking to republican officials on capitol hill. he talked to trump trn iansitio people as well. this is the health care dream team. hyperbolic, to a degree. this is that on some level, in tom price. somebody with a ton of experience as an orthopedic surgeon and on complexities of
when you were doing health projects. i know you want your wife to win. she says she respect you doing this, the foundation, cgi is your passion. is it going to keep being your passion? what are you most excited about? this year we talk about future impact. what are you most excited about? anybody who knows me knows that i am subject to serial excitement. that is genetically predictable. i m about to go to latin america. i m excited by the fact when i started this work there was a huge amount of interest and crying need in africa, particularly on the health care side. there still is, but africa s got
department doles out disability benefits and they treat veterans. health care for veterans. the scandal we ve known about was on the health care side. wait lists and veterans not getting treatment and veterans dying and the department had admitted to those problems. this is the other side. just as much if not more money going to veterans disability payments and we knew they had a giant backlog. what s amazing about this is when they tried to get rid of that backlog, they cooked the books. what they were accused of doing on the healthcare side. like th gives you two choices. you can have the books cooked or have a backlog. we re unable to get both taken care of at the same time. i want you to listen to one of the whistle-blowers and her startling claim. i saw boxes with my own eyes and what was in my boxes and a lot of that stuff should not have been shredded. the va told me because i didn t see the shredding happening, that it wasn t shredded.