Infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity in communities big and small. Charter is connecting us. Charter communications supports cspan as a public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front rosita to democracy. Front Row Seat to democracy. Politico. Com headline, Bidens Budget goes big on spending in a bid to lift the middle class. Middleclass. Kaitlyn emma joins us on the phone. Guest thanks for having me. Host lets talk about priorities. Congress needs to approve the budget and often that does not happen when the president put forth his plan. What is the white house saying are there priorities . Guest this is interesting in the sense that it combines the president past president s request for 2022. He is proposing overall funding levels for defense and nonDefense Spending but it is also combining his vision for infrastructure and the american families plan. It is sort of this big sweeping documentary for the president s vision outlinin
National captioning institute, which is responsible for its Caption Content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] politico. Com headline, Bidens Budget goes big on spending in a bid to lift the middle class. Middleclass. Kaitlyn emma joins us on the phone. Guest thanks for having me. Host lets talk about priorities. Congress needs to approve the budget and often that does not happen when the president put forth his plan. What is the white house saying are there priorities . Guest this is interesting in the sense that it combines the president past president s request for 2022. He is proposing overall funding levels for defense and nonDefense Spending but it is also combining his vision for infrastructure and the american families plan. It is sort of this big sweeping documentary for the president s vision outlining what he would like to spend on when it comes to federal agencies and also highways, childcare, education, public health, climate change, and to your point, you are discussing thi
Discretionary budget, but what else makes up the rest of the president s budget and how much is that grand total expected to be . Guest what we saw released last week was what you called the discretionary spending request. That would be for fiscal 2022, which begins on october 1. Essentially, discretionary spending only makes up a third of the total federal budget. So, this is funding for all federal agencies, for all domestic programs, nondefense programs, in addition to the pentagon. This does not encompass the full federal budget, like i said it is about 1. 5 trillion in this request, but in addition to that you have mandatory spending on programs like medicare and social security, tax proposals all that is a supposedly forthcoming in the coming weeks from the white house, may be month, but for now they released this request for federal agencies so congressional appropriators can get started writing the annual spending bills and getting the Government Process started. Host the headl
If everybody could take their seats . Good morning. I call this meeting to order. Welcome to all of our witnesses, including the director of the cia, the director of the fbi, chris wray, the director of the National Security agency, and the director of the defense intelligence agency. Thank you for being here this morning and for representing the thousands of dedicated veterans in the american Intelligence Community. Since 19 94, the Senate Intelligence Committee has held in open, unclassified so the american people can hear directly from the heads of the intelligence agencies about various threats to our peace and prosperity. It is important that this hearing be conducted publicly and openly to ensure that americans have a good understanding from and entrusted, objective source of the challenges and the opportunities we face as a nation. Last year, the director of national intelligence refused to appear. I am pleased that we are resuming this tradition and that will continue on an ann
Continues. Host we are joyed to next by Politico Budget and Appropriations Reporter Caitlin Emma to talk about the 1. 5 trillion discretionary spending plan. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host this is just called the discretionary budget, but what else makes up the rest of the president s budget and how much is that grand total expected to be . Guest what we saw released last week was what you called the discretionary spending request. That would be for fiscal 2022, which begins on october 1. Essentially, discretionary spending only makes up a third of the total federal budget. So, this is funding for all federal agencies, for all domestic programs, nondefense programs, in addition to the pentagon. This does not encompass the full federal budget, like i said it is about 1. 5 trillion in this request, but in addition to that you have mandatory spending on programs like medicare and social security, tax proposals all that is a supposedly forthcoming in the coming weeks from the white