from nondefense discretionary spending and putting it in defense. that's a big plus up for defense and cutting every other thing in the discretionary budget, and that's things that congress doesn't necessarily like to cut, a 30 % cut for the state department. cuts for the epa. and really, just all of the agencies that the government has here in washington would be cut significantly. so that's the kind of thing that members of congress are having to decide if they want to do or not. >> we're talking about fights left, right, and center, essentially? >> yeah. all over the place. >> all right. well, nancy pelosi has been calling this whole budget process irresponsible. where are we in the process? when do you think we'll be able to see action by congress? >> normally you have to have a budget cap set first where the budget committee says here's what you can spend and they dif vi it up.

we're expecting they might have that bill up in a week or two on the house side. what's interesting is that nancy pelosi quote was about the fact that they started appropriating with one bill in the house. even though they didn't have a top line number. it's basically like saying okay, we have a pie that we have to divide up between all of these different things but we don't know how big the pie is. she was saying how are you going through and doing this without knowing how much it is that you have to offer up? >> all right. we'll continue following your reporting in the hill, and also following you on twitter@nivelis. thank you for joining us. >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, university of virginia historian ken hughes talks about the watergate break in and the impact on american politics.

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