of spending grade actually less than 1% of the overall spending. if you zeroed it out, it wouldn t pay for one year of the budget increase as you have right now. correct. again, this is a policy budget. the president s policy as we will spend less on other people overseas and more on defending ourselves and more money back home. that s the genesis of looking very closely at the foreign aid budget. what the president ran on, said if you elect me, i will do this. that s what the budget does. the foreign aid budget is a small part of the budget but it s the policy driving this decision. consistent with what people expected from this president. bret: republicans have trouble passing the spending bills and they are trying to get back to regular order, as you know. 12 different spending bills. do you think that the geo pay will be able to pass 12 individual spending bills to get the government running, considering what you are asking them to do? i hope so.
the new jobs report is offering a mixed bag. the unemployment rate went up to 6.7%. the country added more than 175,000 jobs. msnbc correspondent also senior fellow at the policy budget. i m doing to apologize in advance for the breaking news of the malaysian flight. this is going to be a short one. employment is up slightly, and hiring is down 7%. so more people who have jobs are keeping them. so overall there s more good news than bad despite the big fat red arrow there, which is good. the payroll number was higher than expected, that s the 175,000. and if you look back to the prior couple of months we with