you re absolutely right, we won t solve our readiness problems. we can t fix our ships and planes and so forth in three months or six months, but we can get on a good trajectory. in july the house passed a defense bill by the largest bipartisan majority in the last eight years that does exactly that. unfortunately what this three-month, stop-gap measure will do will cut the funding by more than $50 billion that was designed to fix those problems. so you can t just say i ll put it this way. we re doing more of the same that got us into trouble and that s what my primary objection is. in that case, do you agree with speaker ryan s assessment that the plan that the democrats were pushing is, quote, ridiculous and disgraceful? he said that before the president closed the deal. would you use those adjectives? i d probably use those adjectives and more, but i wouldn t put democrats on it. the truth is there is bipartisan
assumptions, tax policy, mandatory spending policy, entitlements. and it has discussions about the annual spending, defense and nondefense. much of it is missing. it s a very narrow look at a tiny part of the budget. bret: this is a blueprint. they say they are going to fill in the blanks in may. we learned there s more money for defense. i think everyone knew the defense department was badly underfunded but we have readiness problems and we needed to do something. how do you fit it into the big picture? what we saw here is the opening bid on some cuts to nondefense discretionary spending. a lot of these have been tried and they don t go through. i don t think we learned a time what we are going to get out of this administration. if they put a budget out in may, it will be done after congress is finished with it s budget for the year so it will be
assumptions, tax policy, mandatory spending policy, entitlements. and it has discussions about the annual spending, defense and nondefense. much of it is missing. it s a very narrow look at a tiny part of the budget. bret: this is a blueprint. they say they are going to fill in the blanks in may. we learned there s more money for defense. i think everyone knew the defense department was badly underfunded but we have readiness problems and we needed to do something. how do you fit it into the big picture? what we saw here is the opening bid on some cuts to nondefense discretionary spending. a lot of these have been tried and they don t go through. i don t think we learned a time what we are going to get out of this administration. if they put a budget out in may, it will be done after congress is finished with it s budget for the year so it will be
and children of all faiths and all beliefs. we will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the muslim world, to extinguish this vile enemy from our planet. [applause] shannon: national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon. what did the president do as far as unveiling plans to boost it? we keep hearing about that this week. i promised to fix the military s readiness problems repairing ships, planes after 16 years of war. president trump: finally to keep america safe we must provide the men and women with the united states military with the tools they need to prevent war if they must, they have to fight and they only have to win. but the republican chairman of the powerful senate and house armed services committees say trump s plan to increase military spending by $54
comes out and says i want less money for police departments but they re pointing out, folks, that crime is down. help us understand, hance nichols, is there a good sense of how this money is going to be spent if you re trying to make the case to the average american taxpayer this is why we need it and here s what it s going to go for, what s the answer? readiness. in one word that s the answer from the pentagon. they feel they have serious readiness problems, not enough combat brigades. they re actually functional, ready to go out and hit the ground. following up on robert s points on the numbers, they re talking about add 54 billion increase. we don t know what that s an increase from. if that s an increase from the sequester levels, the budget control act of 2011, i m going to be a little wongy with the numbers here, that only gets you to $603 billion for the fiscal year of 2018. what they want, at least capitol hill does, congressional republicans, they want to get all the way to