pitch with a clear message to the white house. to this day, now in the seventh year in office the president has never proposed a budget that balances. for the very first time in his presidency he has submitted a budget on time. the unfortunate part in the contrast you ll see his budget never balances. the contrast couldn t be clearer in the fact he continues to raise taxes over $2.1 trillion in new taxes with continued policies that failed americans yet never ever gets to balance. shawn donovan is director of management and budget. thank you for your time. great to be with you. i want to start with what we heard from house republicans on the hill. is there anything you heard that should give americans any reason for optimism? well, peter unfortunately in contrast to the president s budget which focuses on helping middle class families the republican budget budget once again focuses on tax cuts for highest income americans
center left coalition promising a better economy as well as a resumption of peace talks with the palestinians andrea is in tel aviv with the latest. still a couple of hours of voting left. exactly. we have a few hours of voting left. the final polls which came on friday show that this is really really close. this is a parliamentary election. so you ve got basically get 61 seats in the 120 member parliament majority of the seats. if it s any closer than five or six seats, there s going to be a lot of wheeling and dealing. netanyahu has been challenged much, much more strongly than anyone expected, certainly not even netanyahu himself by a center left coalition led by izaac herzog and coupled we livni who won a victory years back and netanyahu ended up taking over. netanyahu has been promising now in the last couple of days to reverse policy and not recognize a palestinian state. and this is a much harder line and a big change that could have profound implications throughout
leaders strategized. and i don t know if you can hear it behind me there s a jumbo tron playing the service ongoing inside the chapel. you played a clip of attorney general eric holder who received a rousinge inging ovation. but you also had other luminaries of the civil rights movement andrew young is inside of that service right now of reverend jesse jackson. our colleague is going to deliver the sermon the keynote inside of this service that we re watching going on behind me. and it s really just a day to commemorate the foot soldiers themselves. the foot soldiers of the movement. the people who were not necessarily famous not necessarily well known. and the ongoing struggle for voting rights. that is a big theme of all of the speakers inside. there are cabinet secretaries there. you also had shawn donovan, the secretary of omb. so it s really a full display of the power of the presidency
the civil rights era. one that was struck down in 2013 when the supreme court declared section 4 unconstitutional. today s march is not just a tribute to those courageous foot soldiers, but also as outgoing attorney general eric holder underlined this afternoon a call to action. progress is not the ultimate goal. equality is still a prize. still even now, it is clear we have more work to do that our beloved community has not yet been formed and our society is not at a just peace. marching for justice as the very thing fought for and bled for on that bridge 50 years ago is still under assault, the unobstructed right to vote. welcome to our special coverage this afternoon. selma, 50 years later. people from all across the country have traveled to sell ma to commemorate the march for voting rights. i want to start with joy reid who is live in selma today. good afternoon to you, joy. set the stage for what s happening there today. reporter: okay. thank you very much. yest
targeted. and all of this is in part because of the outstanding work of shawn donovan. now here s the problem. when you re good at your job, people always want you to do even more. that s why today i am nominating shawn to be the next director of the office of management and budget. to take his place at hud, i am not nating an all star in san antonio over the past five years, major julian castro. before i talk about julian, i want to embarrass shawn a little more. over the years, shawn has taken an agency with a $40 billion budget, he has made it smarter and he has made it more efficient. he has changed the way hud uses data to save taxpayer dollars.