52 billion being spent on the agency. Also increases Homeland Security by 3 billion. Makes good on the president s pledge to take care of veterans adding hrt 4 billion to the bug there. Where it takes away though is in the department of state, particularly the foreign aid budget. Thats going to be cut across the board. State department by 21 . Thats a little more than 10 billion. The epa will also get cut by 31 . And there are plans to eliminate 3200 positions there. Then the health and Human Services department will get cut by about 17. 5 with a dramatic restructuring of the National Institutes of health as part of that. It also proposes to eliminate some independent agencies including the National Endowment for the arts and the corporation for public broadcasting. Heres what the omb director said about those two agencies this morning. Listen. I think the president finally got to the point where he said, do i really want to make the coal miner in west, the autoworker in ohio trb singl
Among other things, the president set a tweet that upped the ante a bit. I have confidence that china will properly deal with north korea. If they are unable to do so, the u. S. Will. North korea says that tweets like that puts the always volatile peninsula in a vicious cycle right now. Where is is heading and how quickly . We report from pyongyang, north korea. On the eve of may be the most dangerous date of the year here, the north Korean Leader kim jong boone, his telling Associated Press today what we have been hearing from north korean officials here for the past couple of days. That this government in north korea is ready to confront the United States in what it has dubbed reckless military maneuver with a preemptive strike using a powerful nuclear deterrent. The people of pyongyang get ready to mark the anniversary of the birthdate of the founder of this country, kim ilsung. There is reports that north korea could stage another detonation of a nuclear device. Officials saying th
Begins, Patrick Leigh he said that ag sessions should be there instead and not rosenstein. He had some tough words for sessions. I do have questions for the attorney general. I want to know why he has provided false testimony to me and to senator franken. I want to know if why hes recused on the russia investigation, he played any role in the dismissal of fbi director comey. Jon herridge is live from the heart skybox on capitol hil capitol hill. The last few minutes, weve had to change locations from the skybox because we are getting security sweeps in anticipation of the attorney generals testimony just a few short hours from now. We are one hour into the testimony of his deputy, Rod Rosenstein. He has tried to keep his testimony very focused on these budget issues, so things like immigration, the opioid crisis, the phenomenon of going dark, thats when terrorist suspects use encryption to hide their communications. What weve seen so far in the hearing this morning is that the senators
Great to be with you, and great to be with you at home. Im leland vittert. The senate literally burped the midnight oil last night and republicans did not need the vicepresident to get the reform through the senate, though he was there. Were halfway there the. The republicans got this through with vote to spare even though democrats did everything they could to block it. I would be glad to gut and destroy this legislation. How high the stench is rising in this chamber as we debate the bill tonight. In my long career in politics i have not seen a more aggressive piece of legislation. They also took to twitter showing the last minute changes that were handwritten on the bill, complaining there was no way anyone had time to read the entire piece of legislation, much less study it and figure out how it would effect the economy. Here is senator john tester of montana. Can you tell me what that word is . You have better eyes than me, this is unbelievable. In the end, the republicans were abl
Makes sense for north korea to come to the table and to make a deal. The president says he thinks the whole north korea thing is all going to work out. So lets get to it. Shepard we begin with breaking news. The man that murdered 25 people including a pregnant woman in a texas church once escaped from a Mental Institution. Thats according to a Police Report obtained by Dallas Television station wfaa and the houston nbc station as well and since has been confirmed by fox news. Police report comes from cops in el paso in june of 2012. At that time the church gunman, the future church gunman, was facing Court Martial for beating his wife and son. As wfaa and others have reported, police say the gunman suffered from mental disorders and had planned to run from the Mental Hospital and take a bus out of state. Cops found him at a bus station and arrested him. The report indicates not only did the now dead gunman escape from that facility in new mexico, he threatened his air force superior an