from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday,

April 7th. So you may not have caught this with all the focus on war news last week, and maybe

you were distracted by the Passover and Easter

week holidays, but President Trump released his budget proposal for the next fiscal year,

which included an eye-popping 40% increase in military spending to be paid for in part by

about a 10% cut in domestic spending, targeting with the New York

Times called core government services, including money meant to respond to natural disasters,

train new teachers, root out tax fraud, research cures for diseases, and develop clean energy

technology, and including the Times says the elimination of key

federal health, housing, and education programs. And listen to what the president said at a luncheon

last week with cameras and microphones rolling. That's a fundamental reversal of a campaign promise

that he has always made and said distinguishes himself and the

MAGA movement from other Republicans. He wants the federal government out of Medicare, at least

in this statement, as well as other health and social programs. You will hear him refer to his

budget director, Russell, vote. We have a balanced budget because these are the kind of numbers.

And I actually said to them, I said to Russell, don't send any money for daycare.

Because the United States can't take care of daycare.

That has to be up to a state.

We can't take care of daycare.

We're a big country. We have 50 states. We have

all these other people. We're fighting wars. We can't take care of daycare. You got to let

a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They have to

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