White House budget proposal slashes and burns
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.1 | War on poverty or war against the poor? |
| 0:14.4 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney and this is To the Point. The White House budget request is called a new foundation for American greatness in tune with the best-known slogan of the Trump campaign. |
| 0:24.7 | Massive cuts in safety net programs from Medicaid to food stamps are supposed to get people off the dole and into the workforce. |
| 0:32.0 | Where are the jobs? Massive tax cuts for the wealthy are expected to trickle down and be offset by growth in the economy. |
| 0:39.3 | It's a formula that has not worked before. |
| 0:41.7 | And the budget director admits that $2 trillion in revenue has been double counted. |
| 0:46.9 | That's our main topic today. |
| 0:48.5 | On our talking point later, the Manchester suicide bomber was part of a network. |
| 0:53.1 | We'll hear more from England. First, here's the news. |
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| 1:27.4 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:34.2 | Hello again, Mormon-Illney back with To the Point. President Trump's first budget request is considered dead. John arrival in Congress. That's a familiar development on Capitol Hill. We'll hear what the proposal reveals, though, |
| 1:44.5 | about the priorities of the new administration, what's likely to die, and what might survive. |
| 1:49.9 | That's our main topic today. Today's talking point, four people are under arrest in Manchester, |
| 1:55.1 | England after Monday's suicide bombing. We'll get an update on the bomber and what's called a |
| 2:00.0 | possible network. |
| 2:01.3 | Is this the profile of the new European jihadist? First, this news update before going to Brussels, |
| 2:07.6 | where he'll meet with NATO leaders tomorrow. President Trump was in Rome today to visit the Pope. |
| 2:12.9 | Mr. Trump arrived at the apostolic palace in an armored limo. Pope Francis came in a Ford Focus. |
| 2:20.6 | They met in private for about 30 minutes, that's standard for a meeting with the head of state. |
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