cuts to entitlement spending. how he balanced are massive cuts, nearly 30% to the state. scott pruitt the head of the e.p.a. went begging for dollars before this was released. whether or not you are going to see how to make the numbers stack up, huge cuts, a boost in defense to homeland security. no cuts to social security and medicare, 50% of the budget. a lot of republicans are going to be up in arms about the budget. you think it s going to get through the senate? mitch mcconnell said these kind of cuts to the state won t go through? it s a cynical budget, which you expect from a guy like donald trump. it s up there with paul ryan s budget. i don t see how it gets through. he s going to have a battle. we are going to see congress step up and fight against this president trying to make these ridiculous cuts that make no sense. cutting the state department
but i don t think he is listening. listening sessions are for show? look, i think exactly as you are saying. they are hoping the gary cohens and the steve mnuchins are driving this administration. you know, we have the budget out this morning, it lays it out. i m not sure, as you are saying, how much traction the policies are getting. yes, the dow is racing. yes, people at the highest level of the incomes are getting a huge benefit as they are seeing in portfolios. the policy, you only have to look at the health care plan to see, who is going to reap the benefit from the repeal and replace from the ryan bill. itis not the lower income, it s people at the top, top tier. how long it s going to take americans who voted for him in the hardest hit communities are going to have a wake up ment and say i m not getting a benefit from this, but the bankers on wall street are. you saw that in west virginia, the anger. that s a good point.
idea alone. you need to fuse it with something that sort of draws like the intensity of a voting base out to vote for you. and that means you need to support simultaneously policies that animate that segment of the population. which is why, i think in paul ryan s budget, paul ryan is not a racist person, but it s no coincidence his budget doesn t propose to cut defense spending or medicare or social security. it proposes to cut food stamps, medicaid, subsidies cliven bundy was talking about make black people so much subsidies that bears mentioning cliven bundy benefited from himself. exactly. and so, what baffles me, and i want to come back to this because i think it suggests that conservatives and republicans have sort of bought into their own line of thinking about this, that really this is all just about sort of like libertarian high mindedness of small government.
to turn to another senator, or another senator with a few years of service in washington. it s more likely they re going to turn tie governor or someone else who has more executive experience. you know, we ve only had three senators as president in 120 years in this country. yeah. so all of these senators are pushing uphill. they are. and there have been some unpopular votes taken by the republican senators. you know, there s always in the media, there s always this belief that the republican party represents is represented by the most extreme voices in the media. in the media or the most extreme voices on the house or senate floor that is just not the case. we talked about in arkansas, very conservative state. you have tom cotton right now, facing a barrage of questions about a vote he took on paul ryan s budget. a budget that we would all instinctively, i say we house
insecure. that means they do not know where their next meal will come from. you use our checks to pay bills. we cannot afford food. there are 300,000 children in south florida who aren t sure where their next meal is coming from. 1200 elderly families are currently on waiting list for the adopt a family program. we have a handful of 100-year-olds on the waiting list. can you imagine you being 100 years old and food insecurity? 100 years old, 100 year olds and they don t know if they ll be able to eat? but despite this, paul ryan and his fellow republicans are looking to destroy programs for these very people. the house gop voted almost unanimously for a budget where 69% of the cuts target low income americans. cutting lifelines like the food stamp program, like medicaid.