you. until then, talk to us about the differences harry reid now saying the house must pass this farm bill. aren t this things that make in unpassable in the raucous caucus of the united states house? first of all, let me say that we ve now passed twice the senate farm bill which we reduces spending. all those folks in the house talking about how they want less spending in we reduced spending by eliminating subsidies everybody s agreed should be eliminated. we have done major reforms. the first in decades. can t sit in the office anymore in new york and collect a farm payment just because you own some land. we put payment limits on. we do a number of things and we do not cut in any way the benefit structure or regular benefits for anyone who needs temporary help under the food assistance programs. we go after very narrow provisions that deal with waste, fraud and abuse. that s all. i do not support in any way cutting the regular benefits to folks who need some temporary
group, brit hume, back great his winter break. kirsten powers and jennifer rubin, fox news political analyst, juan williams. two months late the president will submit his budget this week and we know some of what is in it. he cut spending by $1.1 trillion including cuts to social security and medicare. he gets $600 billion from more taxes. how big a compromise is the president putting entitlement cuts in writing? that is a step that is not inconsequential. it is odd how he presented it. is this a proposal or a concession? however, there it is, the first time he has been willing to put the adjustment in the cost of living increase in writing. that is all to the good. a lot of the new taxes in there are unpassable. the question arises, if nothing
unpassable. the question arises. if nothing else passed did the president sign the cost of living adjustment. $130 billion over 10 years. not a lot of money but none the less not nothing. we sign it in other words is he proposing it or offering it in tandem with another round of tax increases. chris: i think from everything i have read the president has made it clear if you are going to cut the entitlements you have to have the tax increases or else they are off the table. brit: no president s budget ever passes intact. so, that s a nonstarter. the congress is up and running and working in normal processes. we have to see what comes out of that. the president putting it on the table is not big but not nothing. chris: kirsten we know and i quoted it with dan pfeiffer that a lot of the republican leaders aren t happy with the call for new taxes. john boehner immediately rejected it on friday how
it is time now for our sunday group, brit hume, back great his winter break. kirsten powers and jennifer rubin, fox news political analyst, juan williams. two months late the president will submit his budget this week and we know some of what is in it. he cut spending by $1.1 trillion including cuts to social security and medicare. he gets $600 billion from more taxes. how big a compromise is the president putting entitlement cuts in writing? that is a step that is not inconsequential. it is odd how he presented it. is this a proposal or a concession? however, there it is, the first time he has been willing to put the adjustment in the cost of living increase in writing. that is all to the good. a lot of the new taxes in there are unpassable. the question arises, if nothing
rich people are getting tax cuts and to close loopholes in the way romney says he s going to, taxes would be increased on the poor and middle class and social programs that primarily benefit the poor and middle class would also be cut which is the general structure of the ryan budget so i think it s going to be tough for him to truly distance himself from the ryan plan when there are so many differences. ryan admits he knew this budget whu he put it out was going to be controversial and unpassable. he meant it as a conversation starter i think that s what romney was saying. this is a conversation starter. but his spokesman did confirm. if you re what strikes me as interesting is we ve seen a presidential race like this before. it was in 1996. bill clinton was running against bob dole and a republican congress that had tried to make deep redukszs in medicare.