as well. the trump budget proposal. there s an e missing there. we re going to spend $10 billion to buy an e. let s put that back up on the screen so you can follow along anyways. $300 billion extra for the military over the next two years. that was agreed to in the budget proposal that went through congress last week. $23 billion in border security to hire an additional 2750 border patrol agents, $18 billion for the wall, $13 billion for opioid treatment. and this budget will treat spending on social programs, medicare, medicade, food stamps and other programs by $3 trillion over ten years, dana, to try to save some money. who needs a graphic? we ve got it all here. dana: on wheel of fortune it drives me crazy when people buy money on vowels when they don t need to. what s the latest on rob porter? lots of information this
but the reality, what you can propose in a budget like what the president put forward to cut is all the other programs that congress has discretion over. we don t have a choice about the entitlement programs. we are obligated to spend every year in accordance with the law. the only way to change the spending is to change the law. dana: things you want to spend on get smaller and smaller if you don t deal with the rest. yeah. by making the deficit larger, what we re doing is really kicking the can down the road, to use a familiar and overused expression, to our children. it used to be that when congress would have debates about how much money to spend, if they were going to raise taxes or cut programs, the people that elected them were bearing that burden. today, by not dealing with entitlements, we re actually spending money at the expense of our kids and grand kids. the aarp is a very powerful lobby in washington and social security and medicare are predicted because many members
labor participation season as high as it should be. unemployment is low but a lot of people have dropped out of the work force. you see there s still too many people who are not unemployed but they re not working. that s what we have to be paying attention to. people are at the margins who have lost skills are usually middle age. they re in small town america. sre to have better policies that can give incentives for companies. dana: the administration and the republicans are thinking ab pushing forward these new work rules for people that are receiving medicade benefits. right. dana: should they do that? and how should they talk about it? it s really important policy. it s a great idea. resistance to it is a stupid thing for the democrats and for republicans. why? because we have a lot of experience on work requirement. it s one of the most important things we can do for welfare. we don t need to dismantle the welfare state. we should declare peace on welfare, but with work.
to better outcomes when people have a vested interest in something, they take it more seriously. they are more involved with it. and so i think having individuals that are capable of working, working in exchange for the things they receive, infuses them with dignity. that s something that every human being ultimately desires. dana: i agree with you in terms of the dignity in work. even the pope said that last year. i understand that s important. how do you determine, or who will determine capability to work? who is able to work? that s something that i don t understand. that s a subjective decision, right? it is to a degree. bear in mind when medicade was created, it was designed for the medically frail. it was designed for the elderly, for children, for the blind. it was for folks that truly were infirmed. it has since been expanded to people like you and i, able bodied working age without dependents needing us to be home caring for them. it is for that latter group that we re tal