, and the trump presidency. This is just under one hour. Yes, maybe this is our nations great transition. Were living in a very difficult time, as weve been hearing the last three days. From all over the world we have human rights activists from 31 countries, from every region, that have come together to really consult together what do we do in these difficult times, how do we breathe and push . How do we push Forward Together . So its our honor and privilege to have with us tonight two of americas most admired leaders. [applause] for a conversation about how do we stand again for human rights in the world, how does america, as imperfect as it is when it comes to human rights, bring back human rights to the centerpiece of our lives . Id like to start with you, president carter, a question for you. If you could just summarize what you heard today, where are we and what do we need to do now . President carter well, i think the best comment i heard today that summarizes it is that we are
Least portions of the area. And we have severe storms that are rolling through and they start north and west, but all of our neighborhoods will see at least some of these storms pass by through the night. 5 00 through midnight when this line will drive by the area bringing damaging winds and flash flooding potential as well as small hail to the area. So we are under two threats really at once for today. On radar and satellite, we did have thunderstorms roll by. You can see for the most part those have started to weaken and have also started to move off from west to east. We take a closer look and what we see are from right around Atlantic City down to ocean city, still spot storms moving through. Reds and yellows are the stonkestonk e strongest pockets. And then well have the sun and the heating and then that comes for the lift to storms to develop. So were at 81 right now in philadelphia and so wont be along before were talking 90s again. Well look more closely at those storms coming
Good morning and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. I am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform. Here at the Heritage Foundation. I ask for you please, those in the audience to please make that last little check on your cell phone to make sure that they will not interrupt the proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called Big Government policies that hurt the poor. And how to address them. United states is a very compassionate country and you have an awful lot of government activities that affect poor members of the population and in one way or another. We have welfare programs, welfare spending at one time or another that adds up to well over 1 trillion. That can be in things like healthcare, directing supports of one kind or another. We are not really here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of Government Policies
Now on cspan a. Review of the 2018 federal budget from the money the president requested to what congress, who holds the purse strings, ultimately decides. Joining us from capital gal nancy, senior correspondental now correspondentent for bloomberg. Nancy, tell us what the president requested for 2018, and what were his Top Priorities . The president stuck with the overall number in the law, the budget control act, requesting basically a little bit over 1 trillion. 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for. Within that number he really departed from the budget control act numbers, and he requested a lot more for defense programs. About 54 billion for security related programs. And covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. So thats a violation of the budget control act there. But more than that, its very politically unpopular. Yes, numbers really members really like the defense spending increase, but they dont like taking it out of nondefense programs agricu
Now on cspan a. Review of the 2018 federal budget from the money the president requested to what congress, who holds the purse strings, ultimately decides. Joining us from capital gal nancy, senior correspondental now correspondentent for bloomberg. Nancy, tell us what the president requested for 2018, and what were his Top Priorities . The president stuck with the overall number in the law, the budget control act, requesting basically a little bit over 1 trillion. 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for. Within that number he really departed from the budget control act numbers, and he requested a lot more for defense programs. About 54 billion for security related programs. And covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. So thats a violation of the budget control act there. But more than that, its very politically unpopular. Yes, numbers really members really like the defense spending increase, but they dont like taking it out of nondefense programs agricu