of priorities. This here is a skinny budget. It will be fleshed out in full. But when you're

talking about cuts to the National Park Service, cuts to climate science research, cuts to UN

peacekeepers to the NIH rental assistance at a time when the rent is too damn high, what does it

tell you about the priorities, John, of this administration?

And we're not just talking, Alicia, it should be clear here.

We're not just talking about cuts.

We're not talking about what you usually hear in Washington about, which is a reduction

in the expected increase or even a one or two point haircut on these programs.

We're talking about tens of billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health

and the Housing and Urban Development Agency.

So you've had a big list there.

I think we're talking about basically a 20% cut, maybe a little bit more than that,

and discretionary spending.

This is unheard of.

No one's ever seen anything like this.

It is responsive to Donald Trump's base. It is responsive

to Russ, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, basically the kinds of budgets

that he used to write when he was the budget guy for the Republican Study Committee, which at

the time was the extreme right-wing group in the House, and its budgets never got more than a handful of

votes. So we're seeing the dream of Donald Trump to slash the federal government, to cut taxes

for the wealthy, and we will see what Congress says about it. But for the time being, I think

there is a clear direction of President Donald Trump to destroy as much as he can of the federal government as fast as he can.

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