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is natasha instead of us foreign policy specialist and a professor of government at the university of essex. and, and i wrote b is alan boswell, the international crisis groups project director for the horn of africa, a very warm welcome to all of you natasha. i'll start with you in colchester. the us says that every dollar it spends has to be justified with the answer to the questions. does that make america safer? most stronger and more prosperous is the freezing of us a id in line with these goals? no, not at all. i mean, this is such a significant shift in us military policy and it is not making american safer, but it's definitely not making many people who are vulnerable safer because usa had was, was instrumental in providing life saving dark scenes. i mean, all the work that if we just even look at the area of global health for usa to work in partnership with organizations like how far to, to help prevent the spread of aids. saving somewhere around $26000000.00 lines or work to support the now larry vaccine, or to to find malaria which kills $450000.00 children under 5. and your work

natasha linstad is a professor of government at the university of essex. she joins us now from colchester, england. i mean, it's a different view of democracy essentially, isn't it? these different branches of democracy are meant to sort of play off against each other. and what jd vance is saying is that the executive should have all the power right. >> and i would argue that that's not really a democracy when there's not any checks and balances, when you have almost like a super presidential system that you see in hybrid regimes, that that's not really a democracy. there needs to be some way of of checking the executive. and that's why we have article one in our constitution, which empowers congress to to have the power of the purse to to set the budget to, to a lot spending for different agencies and organizations. and so that's why we're seeing all this legal pushback, because what trump has been doing, and he's been on a rampage trying to dismantle the u.s. government. but what he's been doing is not constitutional. and so i think if you look back into

professor of government with the university of essex, natasha linstad is joining us now. good morning natasha. thank you so much for your time. let's start with those calls from president trump to balance the budget. we're just five weeks away again from this government funding deadline. we're seeing tensions rise between senate and house republicans. you know, the senate republicans are saying that that they want to take the lead on the budget bill. and then you have house speaker mike johnson saying, no, we want to make the first move. is trump going to have to to pick a side here? >> i think he actually loves that both the republicans in the senate and the house are competing for his attention and want to take a lead in the agenda. of course, the agenda is something that is not going to balance the budget, because part of this is to implement a huge tax cut like the tax cuts that he implemented in 2017, which added billions and billions, of course, to the deficit. so that's one big part of of the agenda. another big part is to have more money for immigration and to be