. -- other democracy struggling to banish oppression and safeguard the rights of freemen throughout theld. ♪ demonstrate to the nation and defensed that america's has begun. ♪ the budget isn't legally binding. it's not a law. guidance of what you are supposed to do, and there's really no repercussions if you do not follow it. we passed the budget and blew through that budget last year. >> tonight on q&a, the president of the committee for responsible federal budget talks about the federal budget process and what to expect from. >> the new congress and the trumpet ministration. >>. >> this issue is so hard for politicians to vote quote unquote right way, pay for things. doing less, paying for more. we borrow hundreds of billions of dollars a year. is amakes sense when there recession. it doesn't make sense when your economy is strong. changesmake these hard and they involved straight up raising taxes, cutting benefits, performing entitlements. >> tonight at it :00 eastern on c-span's q and a. ♪ the presidential inauguration of donald trump is friday. c-span will have live coverage of all

in a new alliance for progress, to assist freemen and free governments in casting off the chains of povertyon of hope cannot become the pray of hostile powers. let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the americas. and let every other power no that is hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. [cheers] president kennedy: to that world assembly of sovereign states, the united nations, our last best hope, in an age were the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support to prevent it from m, toing merely a formu strengthen its shield of the week, and to enlarge the area in which it's written a run. -- writ may run. to those nations that would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request. that both sides begin anew the quest for peace. before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. we dare not tempt them with weakness. for only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we

a disruption of the status quo to put us back on a path of limits growth, free markets that give freemenn opportunities top put us back on an explosive track of american exceptionalism. great nations are not the product of great governments. they are the product of good men and good women and free markets doing great things together. and that's what has captured the american manage nation through the vision of donald trump. and we are ready to go. we'll not let the naysayers rain on this parade. lou: i never dreamed that you would permit such a thing. i also know as you talk about our president-elect, i think people continue to underestimate the power and the talent and energy of this man. he is a leader for our times as i believe f.d.r. was a leader for our times in the 30s. he's a leader for our times as was abraham lincoln or theodore roosevelt. i think he has extraordinary potential to achieve the possibilities that young americans right now perhaps have given up dreaming about. it would be wonderful to see the american dream resurrected, the middle class to be growing again. wages t