Host you can also catch up with us on social media. Host a very good monday morning to you. The president s fiscal 2016 plan which kicks in october 1, proposes to spend 3. 99 trillion on the budget plan, just under 4 trillion, and projects revenues of 3. 53 join dollars. That would leave a budget deficit of four and 74 billion kit that will be the topic of conversation throughout the this morning on washington journal and is the topic of conversation on the front page of many newspapers. Los Angeles Times budget aims to boost middleclass. Over to the front page of the wall street journal this morning, obama opens bidding on taxes. Front page of the denver post this morning president would find huge projects for corporate with Corporate Taxes is the headline there. This is how the New York Times puts it. Should washington worry about what may be the defining economic issue of the era, the widening gap between the rich and everyone else, or should policymakers primarily seek to address a
Something that we believe will help with the issue of drug prices which i think is part of the first part of your question in terms of making sure that we can make progress both on quality as well as affordable in healthcare. With regard to the delta in that particular year, i will defer to my colleagues but having been at o. M. B. My guess the date in the year will be one of the elements if it is that large of change as well as other things but ill let andy speak to that. Im going to endorse what the secretary said. First smart comment. So theres a couple of things i think hes referring to his own not mine. And yours. There is a timingish issue and that is a significant driver and we can take you off line and go how that works. Second, specialty drugs, theres thats a driver there and then i think theres a small factor for growth in population but i think the first two factors will be the biggest driver in part d. Youll actually i think well be able to take you off line but well cover
Or are there other costs as well . We follow the same rules. This is no deviation from that. It. It includes costs from the missions we are doing. As has been the case for many years. Those bases will presumably stay a while. After next year, right now the number of troops is supposed to go down to nothing. But, we are still going to see overseas Contingency Operations until at least 2020 . What you will see in the budget documents released which i have not had a chance to review myself is a proposal that we Work Together in the executive branch and congress to move some of those costs for what takes place in the command region to the budget if circumstances allow us to do so. The department is not able to absorb those costs within a big topline however. If the war ends, why cant that be done quicker the transition . It can be done quickly as a larger budget negotiation allows. But, if sequestration is not lifted, it is not doable to shove all those costs of back into the base budget w