it s driven by the three big entitlement programs that are very popular, medicare, social security and medicade. that s 70% of what we spend every year, the funding of the government is about 30% of what we spend. there s been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs. hopefully at some point here we ll get serious about this. dana: entitlement spending. we ve talked about it for a long time in this country. i read it again this morning. you conclude one of the things in your conclusion is that we have to deal with this issue. how serious is it? it s the most serious problem confronting us. congressional bug office, for example, shows a significant opening up of the deficit. and fiscal 2019 is gonna be a very large number deficit.
i was recruited to run for state office after making a statement about the importance of expanding medicade. that decision, plus twisted reporting and presidentle this tweets ending up costing my husband his job. also she blames the political action committee of long time hillary clinton ally. she said that money had no impact on her husband s campaign. all those contributions were publicly reported and of course again clinton s e-mails never came up. if they had, i would have found that alarming, immediately reported it and likely pulled out of the campaign. so she would have reported her husband and it was north of $700,000. president of judicial watch joins me now. so i just laid that out. i m going to hand it over to you with whether or not the world cares what mrs. mccabe is saying. well, of course, mr. mccabe
decreases the amount of money they receive for medicade. one of the biggest drivers of federal dollars back to the states. any cynical republican thinks it s gross if you re doing it for that reason. i know you re out there somewhere, gross people. so that would be gross in the first case. but in the second case, i would say this cuts both ways. if, in fact, illegal immigrants, people in the united states illegally, are afraid, they re also going to be afraid in te s texas. they re probably going to be more afraid in states governed by republicans where there are more hard line rules. so arizona, texas, virginia, other states that have large populations where there might be illegal immigrants. those guys will probably suffer just as much or more than california would under this. dana: i might ask you one other question. this just in moments before the 2 p.m. show started the daily briefing. apparently, this is according to the new york times president trump s lawyer talked ab
balances ever. of course, mr. chairman, you know you can t start paying down the $18 trillion of debt that we have with another $100 trillion on the other way until you first come to balance. we do that in a responsible hopb nest way. we do it in a responsible logical ten year window. dana: i was following all of that. that was in the obama administration. this budget the president is putting forward also doesn t balance. how have the economics changed your viewpoint on supporting this type of budget? well, hey, i think that s a great segment, a great question. here s the big difference. with the president s budget request is doing here is going after the real drivers of our debt. that s the mandatory spending. he s doing it in a very humane way. the obama budget that i was talking about before never touched medicare, snap. excuse me, medicade, tan and snap, other welfare programs. this one does. $1.7 trillion worth in the first ten years alone. that s a trade i ll take every
it. the budget deal that was struck last week that raised spending caps by $300 billion over the next two years, that s the working framework that we re going to be living with for the next couple years. dana: congressman from indiana was on earlier. he said he likes the budget. said he loved it. said that by the president addressing medicade, snap and pam, that that will be enough and that you don t need to do really anything on medicare and social security right now. do you agree with that? just from an economical standpoint, not politically. well, i respect the congressman and he represents my home state, the district i used to live in in indiana. i like him but i don t agree with what he said. i think the reality is the entitlement side of our budget, which is the programs are medicare, social security and medicade, are over 50% of the federal budget now. ordinary americans can be forgiven for not quite understanding how this budget stuff works.