Actual cuts from current spending. between the extension you passed last week and the next one, you re offering $10 billion in actual cuts. $10.5 billion in cuts from current spending. associated press says the white house is arguably meeting the gop just one sixth of the way, not halfway. your response? well, let me say this, we can talk about numbers and i m willing to. but let s get down to the bottom. the bottom is this: if we went ahead with the house republican budget, if we decided to cut education, the way they want to cut it, take it out of head start and put hundreds of thousands of poor can kids out of the program and dismiss 10, 20 thousands teachers and staff. if we cut the pell grants and force young people to leave college, if we want to cut medical research at the national institutes of health, which somewhat they propose and cut
Construction crews from local companies repair roads and bridges, railways and ports. that was part of our plan, and it s put hundreds of thousands of folks to work. but there s a lot more to do to rebuild our infrastructure for the 21st century, and a lot more americans who are ready and willing to do that work. so, that, too, is an area where we ve got to keep moving forward. we re going to have to cut taxes for middle-class families, and after a tough fight, we finally extended emergency unemployment assistance for folks who had lost their jobs. we we passed the fair pay act to help put a stop to pay discrimination. we ve reversed the executive orders of the last administration that were designed to undermine organized labor. i ve appointed folks who actually are fulfilling their responsibilities to make sure our workplaces are safe, whether in a mine or in an office, a
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Singapore s foreign minister. just a stunning thing when you think about it. it s a dictator who has put hundreds of thousands of people in camps, people are starving. he s arranged for the killing of people even close to him. and this is the image we re seeing. adding to the side show, dennis rodman is in singapore. he knows both trump and kim and says he deserves some of the credit for the entire thing. this is what s going on. jeff zeleny is outfront live in singapore. early this morning as it is for you, jeff, what is going to happen here through the hours of the night in the united states? erin, good day from singapore. president trump, as you said, is going to be making his way to the capela hotel, and there is going to be that historic photo-op, really in front of the hotel, i m told. it looks something like the front of the white house, the colonial-style building. but we ll be struck, of course, by the very large differences in the images of these two leaders.
Time after time the republicans have gotten together and they ve said no. the president makes the case to workers. republicans are the problem. i send them a jobs bill that would have put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work repairing road, bridge, transit systems. they still said no. howard fineman on the president s big speech on jobs. it was another war on women train wreck. it s about policy and whether or not you want to fix the structure discrimination that women face that republicans don t believe is happening. joan walsh has the latest. paul ryan has a dirty little secret in his budget and the cooperations love it. david k. johnston on the tax shelter plan that no one is talking about. good to have you with us. thanks for watching. republicans have spent the last few days attacking the president