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it's not even the art of the deal it's caring. >> lawrence: in the meantime attention turns to congress to make's trump's agenda a reality. senator rick scott reviews the votes that could happen this week. >> ainsley: tell you what the president did yesterday to prove the democrats wrong. >> brian: second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. run the animation. ♪ >> ainsley: federal layoffs will reportedly hit the defense department as the agency is expected to be the trump administration's next down sizing target. >> brian: it comes as elon musk reveals is he open to sending doge dividend checks to americans. >> steve: i like the idea of that. >> ainsley: a thousand dollars. >> steve: lucas with the details. >> lucas: more animation for you sitting for joint interview. president trump and elon musk told our own sean hannity what they're doing to cut waste,

fraud and abuse from the government. and here was elon musk responding to the criticism of doge. >> the president is the elected representative of the people. so he is representing the will of the people. and if the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people, and preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy. the overall goal is to try to get a trillion dollars out of the deficit. and if the deficit is not under control. $1 trillion. now "the washington post" reporting defense department firings are expected to start soon. depending on agencies, we're told submit lists of probationary employees after members of elon musk's doge team arrive and with a budget around $850 billion a year. there is plenty to cut, guys, including costly weapon systems. the pentagon doesn't want but forced on them by lawmakers on capitol hill. that's the challenge officials say. now, yesterday, a new idea

sprung up on x. i will read it out. president trump and elon musk should announce a doge dividend that tax refund checks every taxpayer funded exclusive whether i a portion of the total savings delivered by doge check with the presidents. treasury secretary scott bessent sat down with our own bret baier last night. he says doge has already uncovered $50 billion in savings and says ultimately there could be several percentage points g.d.p. in total savings. >> steve: regarding the cuts at the pentagon. i know uniformed personnel would be exempt. >> lucas: correct. >> steve: currently the pentagon, the department of defense employees 700,000 civilians. any idea how many of those are going to get chopped? >> lucas: it's not clear right now, steve, you are right. 1.3 million men and women on active duty. they are exempt from those cuts.

mentioned 700,000. that's not just in the washington area, of course, it's all over the country. f-35. there is parts on that plane from all 50 states. so, when they are looking at different costly weapon systems or people working for the defense department, they are looking not just in fact not just around the country but around the world, guys. global force as you all know. >> brian: i don't understand lucas and i don't know if anybody is capable of answering this. but how can you make an assessment so quick? to me, don't you need to really look at some of these agencies besides just saying give me 10% of your force? because some might be overtaxed, some might be sitting on their hands all day. how can you make the evaluation so quick? >> lucas: that's a good question, brian. you think there would be a series of interviews thinking back to someone like office space you want to sit people down and find out just what they do. what's their role, but, perhaps when it comes to these weapons system that some of them the pentagon doesn't work.

the pentagon knows right away what they want to cut. and the donley team wants to help them out. big challenge though is on capitol hill because this has happened before. the pentagon marches over across the potomac to capitol hill and says we want to cut x, y and z that's nice please return to the pentagon. >> brian: that's why the doge team is so valuable. they don't have a horse in this race. i don't really care about montana and i don't care about maryland. i tell you this is the bottom line. >> lawrence: i think it has to be that way. because, you have different members from different districts and different states that advocate for things that they may not think they would have advocated for another state. but it gets jobs in their district and all that even if it's a bad program. i guess the one thing that continues to annoy me is that there is not more frustration with the money being abused. like i want them to be mad with us. like, we have been taking advantage of and i think when

the president and elon musk yesterday said it's about carrying and competence, i think it put it into perspective. let's watch. >> in order to save taxpayer money, it comes down to two things. competence and caring. and when the president was shown the outrageous bill for the air force one and then negotiated it down, if the president had not applied competence and caring, the price would have been 50% higher. literally 50% higher. the president cared, the president was competence, the price was not 50% higher as a result. when you add more confidence and comparing you get a better deal for the american people. >> sean: some call that the art of the deal? >> not even the art of the deal he uses the w word it's caring. >> either competence or caring you will get a better outcome. that's the reason if you don't

have competence and care you are going to get a terrible deal. the problem is the american taxpayer is going to get a terrible deal look at the last administration. can anyone -- can any reasonable person say the last administration was either competent or caring? >> lawrence: so true. >> ainsley: the average american makes $66,000 a year. all of them pay taxes. they live paycheck toe paycheck so when you do a deep dive and look at all of the things that they're cutting out, we have rolled it over and over and over. last night sean was rolling all the things we are getting p cutting, all the dei programs in other countries, it does make people mad. because we all work hard and we want to keep that money and that's why when we hear they might send $5,000 checks to americans. how great would that be? we can definitely use that. >> brian: i'm actually not for that if you are cutting the deficit or you are not. >> ainsley: you want it to pay off our debt. >> brian: pay the deficit down. really similar to a family budget. if you are bury inned debt and

get a debt consolidation loan don't take some of that consolidation loan and put it into miscellaneous spending. goal down is to spend down the debt. right now we have a budget of $6.7 trillion. 2.9 trillion in social security, medicare and medicaid. 1.15 central veterans benefits it. leaves very little for any president to spend. so we got to dive into those -- that spending and find out where the fraud is. >> ainsley: i'm glad we are saving. what it's done is they have exposed has been happening through the last administration. two guys given up everything. we know what donald trump has been through. he will doesn't have to do this. he said that time and time again. eric always sets that, his son. is he a billionaire. another guy who is a -- richest man in the world and he's not making a dime on this and is he sleeping in a sleeping bag every night go through all of the records and save our country money. >> steve: whole idea for the doge dividend.

x statement the guy james fishback. the ceo of azore i can't, he is an outside adviser to doge. pitched the idea doge sun sets in july of 2026. his proposal calls for taking 20% of the $2 trillion and stimulate the economy. keep in mind. there are so many different programs out there and, you know, the list goes on and on and on. it's going to get even longer. i would like to see congress be hour of a partner in this they're the ones who al who he cases money for dumb programs. 1978 a great time for that particular program but it's done let's stick a fork in it. >> lawrence: they have shown no humility through this process. it was their job we shouldn't

need a zone. their job to have oversight of all of this money. instead these hearings have become so performative. they just yell back and forth rescripted questions. show me where the money is going. and i disagree with brian but from a different perspective. i think the american people need tangible results. the average person not our fault they mismanaged the money and the debt is out of control. give us our money back that you misspent. and i think president understand the connection with the people. when people see they are getting a check back, that's a promise made, a promise kept. i do agree, brian, we have do have to pay off the debt. but i think the first initial step is giving the american people some money back. >> ainsley: especially making $66,000 a year. >> steve: 5,000 would make a big difference. >> brian: the money that's being saved and figure it out into the tax cuts extension, and what

they're working on in the house and the senate. so i'm wondering if that could play a role in the figures that gets a guy like chip roy across the finish line and tom massie and other people or rand paul. we just got to cut the budget. well, we are, but if you don't extend those tax reform, everyone is getting a massive tax increase. >> ainsley: you talk about promises kept -- promises made, promises kept. that happened yesterday, too. remember when the democrats were saying he is going to go after ivf. no, donald trump said he wasn't. yesterday he signed a an executive order to aggressively make ivf more affordable and more accessible. this is what the white house's statement says. infertility struggles can make conception difficult. turning what should be a joyful experience into an emotional and financial struggle. my administration recognizes the importance of family forms and as a nation our public policy must be made -- must be to make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children, including by easing

unnecessary statutory or regulatory burdens to make ivf treatment drastically more affordable. >> steve: right. exactly. keep in mind a cycle of ivf can run anywhere between 12 and $25,000. so many people would like to have a family and so they put all their hopes and dreams in that. but, you know, it breaks the bank this whole thing became a talking point about a year ago after the alabama supreme court ruled that embryos, frozen elm bree owes had essentially the same rights as children. and there was a national backlash. and it prompted a number of ivf clinics to stop serving people in alabama because they faced legal lawsuits civil and criminal. at the time, shortly after the supreme court of alabama ruled on this, katie brit, the senator from alabama, called donald trump and explained what was going on. after she explained to him, he was on board essentially what he

signed yesterday was the conversation that he had had with indicate did i brit, talking about how expensive it is, how important it is, and he followed through on it. >> lawrence: didn't stop the democrats from lying during the campaign. watch. >> donald trump and j.d. vance's policies and proposals, of course, we would see total bans on ivf around the country. >> trump keeps saying not only is he opposed to abortion rights. he is also opposed to contraception. he is also opposed to ivf. >> now he is saying that, you know, he is going to pay or the government is going to pay for ivf. is that going to be before or after he repeals the affordable care act or is mexico going to pay for it? >> these guys don't get to stand up and say with any credibility oh, yeah, we really want to help families have access to ivf, except for the fact that we want to ban it nationally. and we will not support any laws to protect it. >> they clearly, as you said,

hate women. donald trump is the father not of ivf but of abortion bans. >> ainsley: can i assure you donald trump doesn't hate women. >> brian: that's not been the issue. [laughter] but i would say this. i think that elon had twins through ivf. the mother of his twins had ivf if i'm remembering correctly. he definitely can afford it but he can sympathize with the process. >> steve: one of the people we just saw in that soundbite montage is actually the brand new dnc chairman. he has started his tenure running the democratic party which has lost its brand for the most part. he has been doing a trip around the country. started this week visiting the swing states of pennsylvania and wisconsin. then he's going to illinois, two red states, texas and missouri. and at one point, he addressed, i believe it was just a day or two ago the united steelworkers in pittsburgh where, naturally,

in front of a union crowd, he made sure that they understood that he's got their back. >> lawrence: here's my issue with the tour and i keep hearing democrats they have well intention you have to travel around the country. you can't travel around the country and present the same ideas. listen to what the american people are telling you. how many times did we hear in diners all over the country that the economy was the number one issue? okay. it wasn't rocket science. number two issue was the border. so you got to respond to those concerns. and what we see -- hopefully, maybe this dnc chair is going to change. but there has been resistance to cutting spending across the country through doge. and there has been resistance to the president deporting criminal illegal aliens. so, if you are just going to travel around the country with the same message, i don't think you will be effective maybe he is going to change. >> ainsley: this is ken martin, the new dnc chair. he said that the union workers and labor leaders, he said as trump wages his war on working

families, democrats will fiercely answer the call my favorite old union song which side are you on? i'll tell you what, democrats are on the side of the worker, we will show americans every day that workers, in fact, do have more power than any billionaire. they are trying to win back the trust of the american people and the working class. thought republican seems to be the party of the working class after donald trump's win. >> brian: labor secretary nominee getting pushback from republicans she is somebody who is asked by the teamster's president, the president of the united states was asked hey, would you nominate her from oregon? that's going to be another thing. the other thing the president do in the big picture, the whole tariff push is massively a push to get manufacturing jobs -- in america. is the president saying that? he gets it. understand there is going to be a shift and there's going to be a modify. no longer pays to bring all these good from outside a go

that shift is complete in three years the democrats have no prayer of getting blue collar worker back for a generation. >> lawrence: also, to your point, brian, about the labor a lot of searches are upset that this person was nominated. but you got to understand. the president didn't win just because of republican votes. he disrupted the collision. ycoalition. she is not going together setting policy day-to-day basis. has to fall in line with the president's agenda. put a more conservative deputy under her. i think we have to see the big picture here. it can't just say oh she is not conservative enough. >> brian: tell rand paul that. whipping against is he whipping against her right now. >> steve: george clooney was on one of the late shows last night and, he famously endorsed kamala harris. >> brian: that went well. >> ainsley: he got it all started. >> steve: he had a direct message for donald trump last

night without actually saying his name. george clooney said this last night to trump. good for you. i hope you do well because our country needs it. and we will meet you in three and a half years and see where we go. that's a good step where he says i -- you know, i hope do you well. because ultimately we all are america. >> brian: how late did you stay up last night. george clooney is on. end your plan. endlessly sexy. is. >> steve: that's the beauty of alexis. i went into your office before gout there. i moved the heater over. alexis what did george clooney say about donald trump last night on the late night show. >> brian: i want to grab that for radio. >> ainsley: did you stay up and watch sean's interview. >> brian: i did. i was allowed to. dragging or somewhat punch drunk, a little bit. we passed a breathalyzer but we wouldn't be able to pass a physical test. carley shimkus tells us what it is like to pass a breathalyzer.

>> carley: who doesn't love a punch drunk show. makes it more fun. never know what you are going to get. let's get to headlines here. anti-israel protest breaking thought a jewish neighborhood in brooklyn last night. hundreds of pro-hamas protesters flooding the streets screaming anti-semitic smears like zionist go home at the pro-israel demonstrators who showed up to counter the protest. the two groups eventually needed to be separated by police. the nypd recovering a huge knife on the ground during the clashes. police say one person was arrested on assault charges. after someone was punched in the face. bizarre zizian. police believe they could be as many as 30 members. appear to be mainly young trans women who are masked and computer whizs. killing of a border patrol agent in vermont last month and been

connected to at least five other killings across the country. the three were arrested in maryland on sunday. a judge has ordered each of them to be held without bail. a judge delivered a not guilty verdict in his assault trial yesterday. the rapper leading into his girlfriend's rihanna's arms as she breaks down from this verdict we find the defendant rakeem marist not guilty. [cheers and applause] rihanna posted on instagram after the verdict quote the glory belongs to god and god alone thankful, humbled by his mercy. dalton illinois mayor tiffany henyard and her boyfriend being sued for involvement in chaotic brawl that broke out town hall meeting last month. two men filed the lawsuit attacked for expressing right

during that meeting. the chaos broke out after one of the two called the mayor a derogatory name. attorney for that mayor called the lawsuit frivolous. critics have given henyard the nickname of america's worst mayor over allegations lavish spending of taxpayer dollars, those are your headlines, the latest out of illinois. >> ainsley: the gift that keeps on giving. >> lawrence: that's my favorite mayor. it's just comedy. i can't get over how she took people from the crime ridden communities and put them on a security detail. why does she have a four car motorcade as a small town mayor i don't understand it. >> ainsley: spends the town's money. >> lawrence: nails, hair and makeup. r&b stars. some of them i love. >> steve: elon musk can you send the department of government efficiency over to that town? i think it's a poor use of cash. nice talking to you too, so

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>> janice: hello, everyone. it's cold outside. let's take a look at the maps and show you that it is cold. it's cold for over 90 million people as far as south as the gulf coast where we have extreme cold warnings that feels like negative 5 in dallas, texas, negative 30's and negative 20's and below zero for millions of folks across the central u.s. in u.s. potential record lows. this is artic air mass and people are sick and tired of it. here is your forecast today. we have a new system moving into the west. and then this winter storm that is wreaking havoc across the mississippi and tennessee river valley. we have winter storm warnings for areas that got flooded over the weekend in towards the aerials. part of this. and we could see measurable ice on the roads and the power lines. this is my biggest fear here. people need to really stay off the roads and stay inside. potential record cold highs tomorrow and millions of folks

across the central u.s. stretching over the. coldest wind chill today and things are going to get better as did you go through the weekend. get through the next couple of days: all right, lawrence. >> >> lawrence: i can't believe it feels dallas my hometown is everybody okay? i think they are going to be okay. >> we're tough, we're tough. thanks, j.d.,. >> lawrence: new york state governor kathy hochul met with city leaders to discuss the future eric adams and al sharpton was there. watch. >> the governor said to me that she is going to see what the judge decides tomorrow and keep deliberating with other leaders. >> it's one straightforward test of sort of where his loyalties lie with new yorkers or with donald trump. i want to see what the contingency plan looks like. i want to see do they get into

court? >> we no a lot more at that point about what the appropriate next steps are and continue these conversations. >> "new york post" columnist miranda devine joins us now. so the court is going to have to decide if they are going to take this deal or not. but since the court cannot what going to happen, miranda. i think that kathy hochul is really playing with fire by meeting with unelected activists like al sharpton, to try and decide the fate of a democratically elected mayor. mayor adams is in trouble with the hard left because he dares to cooperate with the federal government in just basically imposing the law on criminal aliens. he is allowing tom homan and ice to go into rikers island where they have should have been able to go in any common sense jurisdiction that is what needs

done to alienate fellow democrats. they accuse him of being too close to trump. and the fact is that new yorkers want these criminal illegal aliens out of the city. and mayor adams is doing what he was elected to do and in any case, the democratic primaries for the mayoral election start in four months. it's going to take longer than that for kathy hochul to remove mayor adams if she decides to do that, which is an unprecedented move. it has never happened in new york history. >> lawrence: miranda i'm per mentioned because this was labeled an emergency meeting. so when an illegal sets a new yorker on fire and watched her burn, there was no emergency meeting. there was a cop yesterday that was shot by a repeat offender because the d.a.s just allowed them back on the street there was no emergency meeting for that there has been crime all over this city, and there haven't been removal of those d.a.s, but she wants to remove

the mayor? why? >> such a good point, lawrence. that's the whole point of what mayor adams is doing. as if new york didn't have enough crime problems without importing these illegal alien gangsters. these gangs who are committing crimes seemingly with impunity. and, you know, all that the trump administration and tom homan are asking mayor adams to do is not obstruct ice in getting rid of these people, which is what new yorkers want. and so i just really query everything. you know, there has been a big who ha about the removal of the indictment against eric adams. but the fact is that what got eric adams into hot water with the biden administration in the first place was his negative attitude and his appeals to them to stop the illegal alien

invasion. he has always been on this side. he hasn't changed his mind. this is what new yorkers want and it's what would win him re-election if he were allowed. >> lawrence: this is what the mayor had to say friday on "fox & friends." watch. >> she has her role. i have my role. throughout this entire ordeal, which i think no american should have to go through. i didn't do anything wrong. i stood focused on what i was elected to do. >> lawrence: miranda, you make an important point. he is still saying he wants new york to be a sanctuary city. he wants people to commit nonviolent offenses to stay in this city. the only thing that he has said, which is consistent, he wants the criminal migrants out of the city committing violent offenses. so what did he change because of trump? >> exactly. if this were some quid pro quo, it's a pretty bad one because mayor adams is still not doing enough and isn't his rhetoric is

not strong enough. at least allows ice into rikers island is the least. you make a point about all the crime in new york, you would think there would be something more important southern district of new york have focused on than eric adams getting upgrades on turkish airlines and alleged campaign finance violations. and, yet, they are treating this as if it's, you know, the biggest corruption story in history. where were they when joe biden and his family were playing their trade in their jurisdiction? >> that's exactly right. there was a time where the southern district of new york was the most aggressive prosecutor's office in the country. they have become more political since, miranda. hopefully they can restore confidence soon though. thank you for getting up this morning. >> thank you so much. >> lawrence: we're getting a closer look with elon musk's relationship with elon musk as they team up to cut costs for

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steve well the education department is investigating several virginia public school districts over concerns that they are not following president trump's recent order banning biological men from women's locker rooms. in one instance, a biological man beings who identifies as a trans woman and is also a registered sex offender is accused of exposing himself -- themselves in the women's locker room in aquatic center operated

by arlington public schools. jen manage google in the locker room with daughter joins us from suburban, washington. jane, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> my daughter sally was on the swim team. i have been to a million events at aquatic centers like that. so, tell us what happened this day back in september when you ran into this person. >> in september of 2024, my daughter was changing after swim class. we walked into the locker room. and there was a naked man standing in the middle of the room surrounded by, you know, other little girls changing. their moms. and it was a very awkward and scary moment for everyone. >> steve: did anybody say anything to the person? >> no. it was eerily quiet in the room. i think everyone wanted to just get out. everyone just -- it was quiet.

it's not usually the quiet moment. giggling and shivering and changing clothes, go, go, go. moms pushing everybody out the door. it was so quiet in that room. >> steve: i bet. >> that i don't think anyone knew what to do. >> steve: so when you got to the car with your daughter, was there a conversation about hey, what you just saw -- >> yes. i said -- my first thought was to get her out of there as quickly as we could. we got to the car and caught our breath. she just said i can't stop seeing it. and i said i know. and i'm so sorry that you had to do that. then i got sort of out of protective mode and more into just -- i was angry. >> steve: yeah. >> and i said you never have to feel like you have to stay in a room like that again. you know, if you are by yourself. if we are teaching our children how to be independent and do things on their own, and we send them into that environment where

they think that they just have to accept what's there and stay and get through it, you are just basically telling everyone that their feelings -- their thoughts don't matter. >> steve: no kid should be exposed to that, period. that he was one of the reasons why donald trump signed that executive order that that should never happen. now, the education department is looking into it. i know you did talk to pool management and they said well that person is transgender, so that was supposed to be it. we did get a statement from the arlington superintendent sent an email to the parents about this. and they say additional signage was added in our aquatic centers and guidance was provided to patrons about facility usage. we will continue to review and adjust our security protocols for sign in and working with our government partners across the county to prevent incidents from this happening again. arlington public schools will continue to foster community for all including those who identify as members of the lgbtq plus

community. so, does that say this is going to continue? >> yes. basically. >> they put his identity ahead of his sex offender status. they didn't know it at the time. but he was entering community facilities all over the county for months, at the very least. and prior to that had been arrested and was released just last summer for the same thing. so, the identity theft, the assumption of an identity to duane access to the women's locker room, it seems like a loophole to me that needs to be closed. >> steve: yeah, apparently this person is due in court in the coming weeks. when you saw and you just alluded to identity theft, that's just one of the charges against this person. we have got a list. indecent exposure. i'm not going to read them out

loud. all peculiar. when you saw that rap sheet, what went through your head? >> i knew there were multiple people in the room with us. my first thought was how many people has he affected? were these individual incidents? were these groups of girls? was it swim teams? was it just women in general? how many people had actually seen or encountered this person? the fact that we saw him in september. we asked for clarification on understanding why a naked man should be in the locker room and why that isn't considered indecent exposure we were told because of his transgender status he could be there. so, the situation -- my thought was like how many more people were affected by this and why

isn't anyone saying anything about it. clearly, some people have. some people officially called the police. and then he still wasn't arrested, even though the police visited the aquatic center in october. he still wasn't arrested until december. he was out in the community that whole time. >> steve: i called it a rap sheet. those are just charges against him. we did reach out to arlington public schools for a statement. we haven't heard back. but, jen, did your daughter want to quit going to that place? i mean, that would freak me out. i'if i'm a little girl. >> we spoke about that. i said you are here for swim lessons. i don't want you to be afraid and quit something that you want to do. we used the individual changing rooms that were. >> steve: good idea. >> that were available to everyone. what we found some days there were lines for those rooms.

people knew he was there and they were avoiding the women's locker room. >> steve: department of education is looking into it. you might have an answer sooner than later. jen macdougall, thank you very much for coming on tv and telling the story about your family. >> thank you so much for having me. >> steve: good luck. all right. 14 minutes before the top of the hour. straight ahead, elon musk and doge keep cutting costs. we're going to discuss their latest discovery senator great state of florida rick scott coming up next. ♪

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>> the president is the elected representative of the people, so he is representing the will of the people. and if the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people, and preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy. the overall goal is to try to get a trillion dollars out of the deficit. and if the deficit is not under control. america will go bankrupt. >> brian: that needs to be explained to every american. doge says it's found $4.7 trillion in treasury department payments. that are impossible to trace. the democrats are still trying to block doge's access to treasury systems. so far failing to stop them in the court. joining us now is florida senator rick scott, a member of

the senate budget committee. senator, how do you and your department fit what doge is doing? why what they are doing is so unique maybe had you access before in the past certainly joe biden did. >> first off, it's not unique in business. and so it's not unique with good governors. when i ran companies, i looked at every line item. when i became governor of florida, there is 4,000 lines of the budget to balance a budget, which had not been balanced in 20 years before i became governor, we went through every line and said this makes sense. this doesn't make sense. we had a purpose for every line. so, that's exactly what the federal government should be doing. so, the fact that the treasury department has what $4.7 trillion that they have no idea -- there is no allocation of where the money is spent? it makes no sense to anybody. think about it. you have a credit card most likely. and you look at your credit card bill and you say okay, that $10

went for this. okay, i'm okay with that i remember that but if you just says oh here is a bill we will not tell you how it was spent, it makes no sense. >> brian: senator, we understand, too. $6.75 trillion of expenses. and we are short by about 2 trillion every year and it's only going up. do you think that social security and medicare and medicaid in that that is where moist of the savings is going to come? not in the payouts but how it's distributed? >> first off, i think we are all committed not to cutting social security benefits or medicare benefits. people paid into these programs and they should keep it. i have a bill for that i'm putting together a bill that is going to require treasury department to tell us how every dime is spent. have an allocation for it. there are ways to save money. ways to make medicare more efficient. ways to make sure medicaid doesn't waste money. there is a lot of other things besides those that just dramatic increases. >> so i want to get to what you guys are doing in the senate by

50 to 47 vote. the senate voted on a budget resolution that includes securing the border, rebuilding our defense and unleashing american energy. but it's a two bill system. won't have the tax reform extensions in there. and you are going to have a vote a raamah i think on thursday vote-o-rama donald trump has said he needs the money today to make sure we secure the border. and get rid of the -- get rid of the criminals and the terrorists and narcotraffickers. evidence has also said we need to have money for the military, right, to make sure we can defend the freedom of this country. so, in a senate we are saying we are going to get that done quickly. that's what we're going to be doing this week. we will have a bill on thursday. or we'll have a vote on thursday. we'll go through, the democrats will have the opportunity to provide some amendments if they want to, and republicans and then what this will go to, i hope it passes, we will go back to the house and hopefully they will pass it. now, we still need to do the tax reductions, or the -- you know,

continue the trump tax cuts, otherwise, it's like a $4 trillion tax increase on americans. but we will get that done a little bit later this year. >> brian: it will be great. also on a great pace. ahead of obama pace in terms of confirmation you deserve a lot of credit for that senator rick scott, thanks so much. >> see you, brian have. great day. >> brian: you got it. more "fox & friends" in a moment. ♪ when winter season hits emergen-c supports your immune system with so much more than vitamin c. be ready to fight back with emergen-c

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