documents online. bret: thank you. up next, the armies storied 101st airborne division being asked to do more with less than in-depth exclusive report from fox news from fort campbell, kentucky. here is what some of our affiliates are covering. fox 9 in the twin cities where the youngest son of the virginia democratic senator and former vice presidential nominee tim kaine was arrested during an anti-trump protest. 24-year-old lynwood kane and for others are suspected of the lighting a smoke bomb inside the minnesota state capitol. fox 12 in portland, oregon lawmakers consider a proposal to provide free postage for election ballots. it would cost about $650,000 a year. oregon is 1 of 3 states that conduct elections entirely by mail. this is a live look at austin, texas, from fox 7. state legislators are considering a transgender bathroom bill.
changed. you can charge older people more than you are now. those are not trump voters. bret: the pushback is from conservatives to say this is not fully being repealed and it leaves an entitlement state in place. the leadership is saying it s in three phases, and it seems like they had a hard time explaining it off the get-go. there is this first part and then the regulatory part secretary price does and then there s the other piece of legislation dealing with across the lines and other elements that are attractive to republicans. conservatives are right in their criticism and my colleague at the washington examiner, an expert on this. liberals have won the central philosophical argument and republicans are reduced to fighting over the mechanics. that is the fight we are watching take place. i don t agree with mara.
and pizza party here. selling the members of the freedom caucus on the budget and the health care plan. bret: john roberts, thank you. president trump is seeking to slash billions of dollars from the coast guard, tsa, and fema to pay for the border wall and immigration crackdown. white house budget office proposal would pump up the budget for immigration and customs by about 36% but it would, the cost cost of several major programs. sean spicer would only say the administration is trying to move ahead with existing homeland security funds first and will release its full budget soon. fbi director james comey says he intends to serve out the remainder of his 10-year term. he told a conference in boston you are stuck with me for another six and a half years. comey has been involved in a lot of political intrigue.
beliefs. we will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the muslim world, to extinguish this file enemy from our planet. bret: of course, president trump in the joint address to congress. now we are getting confirmation from pentagon officials that u.s. marines, a detachment of u.s. marines is now on the ground in syria, somewhere near the capital of raqqa, but it is part of this operation to go after isis on the ground. the deployment is expected to be talked about by the head of u.s. central command up on capitol hill tomorrow, and you have a situation where you knew there were hundreds of special operators working with local indigenous forces, as you see isis control both in iraq and syria, now u.s. marines on the ground, a different element, a
commanders trip with a need from other units. when you reduce the overall size of the military and reduce the amount of brigades you have to deploy, you have to demand the demand goes up. the army downsized by 40,000 soldiers two years ago. now it wants 30,000 more troops. president trump s budget will increase funding for the military by $54 billion but some of this can t be solved by new recruits. those troops still have to fix old equipment, and that takes time. at fort campbell, kentucky, jennifer griffin, fox news. bret: china is warning what it calls a head-on collision with the u.s., south korea, and north korea. the communist north continues its ballistic missile program while the south and u.s. engage in high-profile war games. rich edson is following the action from the state departmen department. china is proposing a deal