tv Washington Journal Tom Cole CSPAN July 12, 2019 7:05pm-7:31pm EDT
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dollars? we don't spend very much. we have a $4 trillion budget in the neighborhood of 15, less than $16 bill critical condition on the entire state and aid apparatus. and so it's a small part of the the t now and some of martest investments helped us after world war ii. our best are some of allies and those investments pay up and we've invested money in columbia. us.those paid off for nd now, the strongest ally is probably south america. and since sends troops to other areas so again, this is a matter
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of debate. and we forget sometimes, we got lot of foreign aid ourselves from the french. now, it's interested and that the 't rebuilt anything and british were there. and this is just a normal tool. a small tool. and. >> in west virginia independence, david? congressman, i've got a question about the budget. decade or for last six months out of the the when is congress going to do it sth along a rule that continues resolutions, continues the rest of the year until congress actually does the budget instead of playing the games they do every year? about shutting down the uing nment, and contin
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, 5 times.s 4 nd one comment is previous congressman talking about through the ng in world. do you think 000 democrats would support that? and coming my biplane. i know what democrats believe. recognize we're a againus country. immigrants llion there is a and violation of the law and we have coming aares the border about thousands of people being trafficked for not only illegal exual es but s
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exploitation. so there is a lot of reasons to border patrol rm a legal immigration policy. in terms of the question, but biggest problem is political disfunction. ou don't want to put things on pilot.tic this year, you can't start a project and we're scheduled to ncrease spending on the next bomber by $700 million so we can deploy it. d a continuing resolution, you just push the start and finish time out but cost you more money.
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last year we e, needed 100 tanks, have you to the same 100 uy again whether you need them or not. is is much better if it on time.eates e reasons the artial fft shut town wasn't as threatening because it didn't man servicesh and hu rnment.ncies of gove nd it would have brought divided government. nd two sides tend to disagree
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mistake and a complexity requires a lot of and we'll work towards it. >> trump policy sets up worlds of trade deals. there is a modified tpp and talk a regional economic partnership. britain, south korea. do they have a free trade and a big reduction to trade barriers in the founding of the world trade organization. the united states isn't part of any of these. is there a problem? >> we're part of in of these and
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to put on a grade agreement and we're in s china and united sad ryeality is that people oppose that. hillary clinton opposed and so bernie ld trump and sanders. it's difficult to get democrats kind of trade deal. ocrats me, i'm a free trader and they're etter for my part of the country and exports quite a bit
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wire dependent on live districts. 'm all for making sure it's fair. do have rogue actors but they haven't lived by the rules. there, it's better advised in confining them and i'm glad the done the right thing. they're toward japanese plenty have the same complaints against china that we do. >> you're on the air. >> good morning. >> good morning. for the ave a question congressman. i was wondering how you filled a
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what i'm talking about so security is what ronald reagan and tip o'neal did. legislation and i suspect there would be additional revenue in that. what is strupting the system. you've to the to readdress the system. on its ng to go broke own. and the breakdown law becomes more expensive to fix and all of a sudden you get across the board 22% cut and will operate on money coming in. going to cut 're social security checks and you that. want to do
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a family of four got a $2,000 pay cut this idea went to 1% is one the most successful ploys by the democrats i've seen. is a sizeable income tax there. n r rates were the highest i the world now lowered to about orld.ge in the w 21%.is actually is and there is still a lot of think what we i did is one reason why we've been ble to extend what is the longest economic expansion in american history. that is where we have the lowest unemployment rate and we have wages drawing in going full for the bottom end of the
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and those are all good things to do something that big ou're going to make mistakes conomic, thenk the e economy is if proof the tax cut worked. , oklahoma.orman a republican? d morning. r mom. you she comes into and she was a nice lady. >> she was. thank you. and my son-in-law drives a beer truck. he's not in the 1%. but his check now they clear $150 every two weeks which is $300 a month.
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and the situation in the hospital years ago. hat was estimated hospital veteran's hospital cost $358 continued to go up. to do a better job and easier. d d people aren't giving goo care, they can be weeded out immediately. again that is most of the folks do a great job providing care ly. take it serious makes it tough and people ought to be disciplined.
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we'll work on that and sometimes language and finger pointing get in the way of problems. hey need to be reasonable and work out our difference. of the items is september 11th victim's compensation fund. supportive.en and loss of life is terrible. we got help from new york first responders and we're very send our o be able to first responders and americans
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in sticking b together. , this is an obligation e have people to put their and. on the line >> it's a difficult job. have not voted for it for 58 years and almost s for it.ublican vote and we see a bipartisan vehicle n the united states senate this, is someone like the funding.y border it's a bipartisan bill in the senate. democrats put the senate bill on the floor.
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democrats only need 218 so they're close, and already democrats willing to do have had a we series of amendments that have worse.he bill so we'll see what happens. my guess is that it's going to look like the senate bill than that. and the rez wanted faster modernization and low yield. and wants to make sure we keep the anes in cuba and not
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