From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. This week, the president released a minimal blueprint of his budget priorities,

addressing only discretionary spending about 30% of government outlays.

The budgets of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans

Affairs go up, and virtually everything else goes down, in some cases way, way down.

As for the other 70 percent of the budget, including Social Security, Medicare,

Medicaid, and interest on the national debt, well, we don't know Trump's

plans. This is what is known in Washington as a preliminary or skinny budget, but that's putting

it lightly. Usually when an administration comes in, they release this so-called skinny budget,

which kind of gives the broad outline of what their

fiscal plans are. And then later on, they fill in all the blanks. As one economist I spoke

with put it, this skinny budget is emaciated. Catherine Rampel, columnist for the Washington

Post, says that if the budget plan is short on budget plans, it is long on politics.

It's basically a campaign document near as I can tell. It's about telling the base, see, we are draining the swamp, we're doing everything that we say we're going to do.

It's filled with a lot of rhetoric that has this kind of campaign feel to it. Things like we're putting America first and other kind of sloganeering. And part of the reason why I don't think this is meant to be taken as a serious document is that it's been heavily criticized actually by a lot of Republicans on the Hill.

They were not trying to extend an olive branch to Democrats, let alone to their fellow Republicans.

This was really just about being able to say, if this doesn't get through, it's not our fault.

Well, while the language of the document echoes Trump's campaign promises, its details, the few that there are, tell a different story.

Another thing that I'm concerned about is various programs to help the poor.

Some of those are safety net programs, whether it's meals on wheels or subsidies for low-income people to pay their rent, to pay for

energy. There's a big cut coming to before school, after-school, and summer programs that a lot of

poor working parents rely on and are actually on waiting lists to get into. But then there are

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