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ogdanovich. 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 , over $1 trillion. 1.1 trillion, as the law allows for. but within that number, he really departed from the budget control act numbers and requested a lot more for defense programs. about $54 billion for security-related programs. he covers that within equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending. that is a violation of the budget control act there. more than that, it is very politically unpopular. members really like the defense spending increase, but they don t like taking it out of nondefense programs, like agriculture, cut more than 20%. transportation, federal housing programs cut 15%. labor, health, education programs, cut similarly. state department programs cut tremendously. congress is rejecting that. they don t really have their own plan laid down just yet. bu ....
now on c-span 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 that s a violation of the budget control act there. but more than that, it s very politically unpopular. yes, numbers really members really like the defense spending increase, but they don t like taking it o ....
rights catastrophe that happening over there. and that part of the world. so if there s pictures circulating, so what? that s not that doesn t diminish the fact that people are really suffering and there really are picturing that are harrowing on ships. i want to point that out. they re real picture. when you talk to them, where do day want to go? the one woman we spoke to was stuck on that ship for three months at a time. she was trying to reunite with her husband in malaysia. she had not seen him for seven years. that s what she said. i don t know dish mean, that s what the said. and i have no reason to think she wasn t telling the truth. and she said that if she had the opportunity to do it again she would, which i found i couldn t believe that. after what she had been through. she d been beaten on the ship. shift stretched her legs she was beaten. her kids were crying the entire time fed a handful of rice per day and a cup of water. horrible conditions. so i ....
healthy. nightly news begins right now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. it virtually wiped apart of a texas town off the map. an industrial explosion so powerful, it killed 15 people and injured hundreds, leveled nearby homes, businesses and schools. and now today, three years later comes the stunning news that what many may have imagined all this time was a tragic accident was something else, a criminal act. someone, officials announced today, set that fertilizer plant on fire, triggering a catastrophe of massive proportions. now the question turns to who. nbc s janet shamlian has late details from texas. reporter: this haunting video shows the moments of explosions. in the small town of west texas, a massive blast at the city s fertilizer plant. 15 people were killed, including a dozen first responders. 200 were hurt. hundreds of buildings ripped apart, including houses, apar ....
the question of what is healthy. nightly news begins right now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. it virtually wiped a part of a texas town off the map. an industrial explosion so powerful, it killed 15 people and injured hundreds, leveled nearby homes, businesses and schools. and now today, three years later comes the stunning news that what many may have imagined all this time was a tragic accident was something else, a criminal act. someone, officials announced today, set that fertilizer plant on fire, triggering a catastrophe of massive proportions. now the question turns to who. nbc s janet shamlian has late details from texas. reporter: this haunting video shows the moments of explosions. in the small town of west texas, a massive blast at the city s fertilizer plant. 15 people were killed, including a dozen first responders. 200 were hurt. hundreds of buildings ripped apar ....