republican. get out of our party. not with trump, who wasn't a republican until yesterday, you are not fit to call yourself a republican. >> we will talk about that in just a second. anna is saying real republicans are being ostracized, doesn't represent real republicans. you say all the lincoln dinners you have gone to the last 15 years, trump is tapping into something that was very much a part of it. >> no question. if you have been to a republican event, you have heard i want somebody to take down the clinton machine, i want somebody to take on the media. you have heard sentiments on immigration that sound a lot like trump's platform. and, hey, why don't we have the same kind of celebrities the democrats do. add it up and what does it add up to? it sounds like the trump presidency. i don't think he created the situations. i think he took advantage of that. tax cuts, deregulation, strong funded military, judges, they have been core principles of the republican party for a long time. it happens now to be the view of t

this is who the republican voters elected to lead the party. those were not secrets during the campaign. this is part of the reckoning i speak of with the republicans on the hill. they are trying to figure out what their voters want to a certain extent. some were surprised by the results of the republican primary. >> you could argue he represents more of what republicans think than what the republican establishment thinks. he tapped into that. maybe they are not remaking the party in his image, but maybe he knows the real image of rank-and-file republicans. you look at the approval for him among elected republicans. i have been calling it a hostile takeover of the republican party. let's talk about immigration here. there is a couple of angles and house bills competing here today. one that fixes daca. one fixes one temporarily. we will see those and talk about those for the next couple days. the images that ed lavandera brings from the southwest. 62 people in one home and 40 something other in another home. that is the image of illegal immigrati

and the republican party unfortunately hasn't been the party of lincoln in a long time.a lot of ways donald trump and this moment where you have out-and-out white nationalists running proudly for office is a culmination of years of the southern strategy and trafficking and racial tropes and dog-whistling. they're taking it the next step further, let's be honest, the ascendant intellectual movement within the republican party today is the racist alt-right and some of the fiercest battles that are being fought in the republican party and on the right are to be sure that racist ideas have platforms on public life and college campuses and elsewhere. so i think it was important to do this piece. because it's part of the moment that we are living in. >> by these descriptions, rick, roseanne barr is offensive and racist tweet this week has, has this climate given license to that? >> yeah, i think so. look, i do degree with the fact that the president has more responsibility here and the president is supposed to be in many ways the moral leader of the country and to you know, to

but he'sng to sa ingtay in the republican party. it's not even a party you can't identify ideologically, trump has no thought to ideas. it's a cult of personality. no matter what trump does, they unite behind it. because he has a disorder personality, the republican party is taking on that characteristic. >> when you say what they say publicly and privately are so different. what i say privately are the same things i say publicly just with more curses in it. i thin have the sound of what the last 16 months have been like. >> in my view, the last 16 months have been the single bod since i came to washington since ralph indicated back in 1985. this is not hyperbole. >> huh? >> i'm not sure mitch mcconnell would say th privately, to be quits on with you. look, they obviously accomplished a great deal. but what we're talking about here, i don't know if you call it cowardice, it's not news that politicians talk different privately than they do publicly. right now, it's more pronounced. look, at some point, we were saying this during the b

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don't invest a huge amount, the fortunes of the republican party one way or another. nd hope republicans get routed, people like jennifer rubin and all those guys, to see the republican party destroyed, the original sin of embracing trump. for me personally if there is anything the last couple years have taught us it is making straight line political projections what the future holds, the surest way to get the universe to make a full out of you, if you look at how the last 21/2 years of gone, 2017-2018, like they were dropping acid in the writers room. it has been crazy. by this time next year we will be remembering fondly how well we did in the great us canada war. it is hard to predict. >> you mentioned congress not doing their job and ability to legislate. how much of that power do you think they could get back if they passed appropriations bills and a full budget every year? >> i don't know if it would be step one. step one would be getting bloodhounds and finding their spine but it would be near the top of the list. congress has lost interest in controlling the po

the transition of the republican party is now complete. once the party that championed golde cold warriors like reagan is now the party that blindly follows its own bear, donald trump. throughout his presidency, trump rebuffed republican orthodoxy and cozied up to the same ought trocratic leaders republicans once repute yeas. republicans are pledging allegiance to their leader or pay the price. a party that once championed free trade has largely turned to protectionism under mr. trump. sermons have been replaced with attacks on immigrants and black athletes. a trust but verify approach to foreign policy giving way to a seat of the pants style in which rogue regimes like north korea are elevated and democratic allies like canadaing are belittled. the president even seems to be telling the moscow line on some of his moscow policy decisions. according to "the wall street journal" is, putin gave trump the idea to stop joint military exercises with south korea. the current chair of the republican party rona mcdaniel had a stark warning to any re

the party, the republican party. he writes, the republican party is starting to show very big numbers. results are speaking loudly. north korea and our greatest economy are leading the way. this comes after the head of the

parties. i think it's worse with republicans but it's a problem with both parties.they don't want to do anything that costs them a slot on "fox & friends" or morning joe. they would rather complain about something the president is doing and actually write a law. a lot of the problems we have a lot of reasons we got trump and this is problem before trump came along. barack obama basic week ruled a lot of executive orders. he did a lot of things that he himself said were unconstitutional and broke a lot of faith andun confidence in the system. we have basically a parliament of pundits right now in congress the real structural problem and one ofun the things i would love to see is for congress to clawback its trade authority. president trump has a lot of errors on the assertion that canada and our european allies pose a national security threat to us. that's just ridiculous. .. authority to decide what a national security threat was during the cold war. congress needs to take that back. >> if you have the white house, your agenda is set by the white house, a chance tha

. >> republican party itself, the republicans in the house cannot seem to get on the same page on this. you've got this hard-line measure and this compromise measure. the difference between them, in this compromise measure, they got the wall. they got family detention, and they got the path to citizenship for the dreamers. the hard-line measure doesn't have citizenship for the dreamers and does have reductions in legal immigration numbers. can you see a way -- >> the compromise measure is terrible because it takes the united states in precisely the wrong direction. we have an immigration problem in this country. we don't have enough immigrants. we need a lot more immigration if we're going to continue to fund entitlements, if we're going to continue to have a vibrant, diverse, effective workforce, if we're not going to have japanese-style stagnation. >> what's the market for that message in the republican party? >> you know, as a matter, at least until a few years ago, back when i actually affiliated with republicans, there were a lot of republicans who understood the basic free market

and i will say proudly that the republican party is the trump party. we recognize t forgot en men and women, we understand that wages were stagnant and that jobs were not coming back, and president trump has delivered every turn. but there has been a shift in party, we brought in democrat voters and union voters, we brought in those forgotten men and women, that will be new coalition, that propels our party to success. and every candidate up for offers, this november -- office this november has to recognize we won the white house, that is how we will keep our majority. and president trump is leading that charge. lou: and speaker ryan with his own agenda, shrinking entitlements. has he heard anything you said. >> i know that president talks with speaker often, house has delivered really good legislation this year, we have got a lot more to do, we cannot risk the lowing that in the midterms -- losing that in midterm, complacency will be our enemy, anyone that does not embrace the trump agenda and recognize the issues that propelled to us victory in white

. >>> g we tight with new evidence that the republican party is now the party of donald trump. in a moment we'll speak to republican south carolina congressman mark sanford, who lost his primary battle last night after president trump encouraged voters to go to the polls for his republican opponent. until last night gop primaries, congressman sanford had never lost an election and as a rule, incumbents do notsually lose but last night sanford did. last night the president went on twitter sayingk sanford has been very unhelpful to me in my campaign. i fully endorse katie arrington. congressman sanford has no apologies. >> it may have cost me the election but i stand by every one of those decisions to disagree with the president. >> last week alabama congresswoman martha robey was forced into a runoff. sh she, too, has spoken out against the president. an incumbent well known, frequently influence and senators almost never just bow out like this, especially when their own party is in power. these days, however, they do. congressman charlie dent did. jeff flake and bob corker are l

with the republican party would they be better if a with a wave election against the republican party what kind of -- what would the outcome be? >> well, there's an old rule in politics, always better to win. and i certainly think, if at the democrats take back the house, they will -- i think it is impossible -- it's like trying to get my dog not not chase a squirrel. they will go after impeachment, and that is actually a tougher thing to game out because depending on what the underlying facts of what mueller and the house find, that could be seen as grave overreach during a time when the economy is doing well and that could actually help donald trump, or if the facts lead to a logical conclusion, it could be the end of donald trump. i don't know. i think as someone who never a really cared much about calling himself a republic, always by republican by default. i don't invest a huge moment in the fors of the republican party one way or the other, but certainly a lot of conservatives -- i'm not one of them -- who just decided they're hoping that the republicans get routed, and the peop

and i think that's bad for the republican party, bad for

. >> there is no republican party. the republican party is taking a nap some where. >> former house speaker john boehner with a bloody mary by his side is trying to make the argument that the republican party doesn't exist in the era of trump. he road the tea party wave of 2010 the same tea party that helped create the toxic atmosphere that propelled trump to winning the white house. joining me now "the washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor ej deon. former rnc chairman and political analyst michael steele and back with me is jennifer reuben. chairman steele, since you are here. >> yes. >> let me do a tim russ certificate and play to you the words you said in november 2010 when you were chairman of the republican party in california. this is in california. >> the message is very clear, folks. this november 2nd, you and the people of this community, you and the people of the state are going to do the most important thing you can do for the people of this country and that is to fire nancy pelosi. >> now, michael

is this the republican party? or is it the donald trump party? >> ihink that your question unfairly poses those as binary issues. republicans aren't for exclusively for openborders. we want fair trade and that's been a part of the message from republicans for a generation. nixon went to china and met with people who did not precisely hold our values or our interests. it is not aberrational that this pr would a time or two deviate from traditional -- >> it's not a time or two. a lot of this stuff that he is in favor of, the republican party is not in favor of. look at russia. he's very friendly to russia. >> he's been very tough on russia. >> bob corker on the floor just appalled that the republican party can't push back onariffs with a bill because they're afraid of upsetting the president. >> i think that senator corker is a little upset he got passed over forretary of state -- >> you think it is a personal issue for bob corker? >> i do. i also think that it's incorrect to suggest all those issues there aren't republicans who hold a variety of vi

if not, they are allowing donald trump to define the republican party. think mitt romney is in a very unique position. he is a statesman. former republican nominee. he comes from a state that is a solid red state. so he has the freedom and the conscience, 70 years old, all the money in the world. this is not a career step for him. he doesn't need this. if he is going to washington to get in the middle of this, it is to make a difference, it is to be a voice for people who feel disenfranchised from the republican party in general. i hope mitt romney takes this opportunity to stand on principle when he sees fit. he is a man of character. he is the antithesis to donald trump. he is a guy who espouses republican values and american values. he is a decent human being. >> appreciate it. thank you both. >>> you know, look, it is interesting listening to republicans struggle with who they are and what they are. this is a question for months. for years, frankly. is this the party of donald trump or the party of paul ryan? i think for charlie department and ana, it

i still but the republican party that is why, as of longer a member party..." the party are city council khamis and assemblyman jim cunneen. both are long time republicans. critics of president trump and both denounced the republican party leadership for it's unwillingness to stand up to the president.jim cunneen/former state assemblyman "....president trump pursues so many policies contrary to a once great republican party. the forced separation of families at our borders is not conservative, it is indecent...."johnny khamis/san jose city councilmember "....i can no longer stand by and watch our president treat immigrants inhumanely and separating children from their families so callously...."khamis, cunneen and davis defended state and local republican leadership but said the national party stands for freedom over tyranny.johnny khamis "...i have not left the republican party, the republican party rob fladeboe/san jose "...as of today all three of these individuals are no longer registered as republicans. they say they have re- registered as"party of no prefe

[video clip] ross: i think the republican party is roughly where the democratic party was around thee that ronald reagan was elected president, which is to say it is coming off a long political dominance and it has lost its dominance temporarily. the question is how long will it take for the party to come back politically and intellectually as well. [end video clip] brian: that was 2009. what do you say today? ross: i would say did not take that long for them to come back politically. whether they have come back intellectually is at best an open question. we often have this nice idea that a party loses power because it does not have any ideas anymore and goes into the wilderness and find new ideas and is rewarded for those new ideas and is ushered into power. history does not work that neatly. it turns out and probably -- you know -- we should have all been aware of that to begin with. the republican party has regained and maintained power primarily through a kind of anti-liberalism that has been pretty successful because liberalism has been culturally successful in various ways and

he said this comment. >> there is no republican party. there is a trump party. republican party has taken a nap somewhere. not based on what the polls say. they're won or lost on who shows up to vote. trump's people showed up and hillary's didn't. >> bill: he had a lot of praise for the president and deregulation and on and on. the phrase about the republican party taking a nap. >> the thing i liked most about that was the shot at the bloody mary on the side of john boehner. there is a certain amount of freedom to getting out of washington and getting out of being the speaker and having to answer to any constituency, you can say or do whatever you want. there are some areas which the president is very much pushing the republican traditional agenda, some areas where he isn't. look at trade. this is a party that has embraced free trade, fair trade but especially free trade for decades. now you have the president threatening or imposing sanctions all over the world. that is certainly not traditional republican orthodoxy. you heard paul ryan the speaker of the house

do you worry about where thlead the republican party down the road? >> yeah. i do. designed to fosterigorou debate the party rivals. but there is also a big question to your point of party. are we the party of less spending, not just lower taxes but less spending. with the rest of the world. are we the party of open trade. are we going to pull away? you mentioned this last night. not pulling away is important that we are 95% of the world and to pull away, so there is some litmus tests out there have seemed to be feelis a party and i t we are going to have a real debate of what w. are we the party of donald j. trump or the party of ideal conservative, and limited government. >> do you see this as a hostile take-over? i wouldn't say it is hostile. again, all is fair in love and war and politics so it is what it is. as with any presidency, the president is the head of the party. never in my lifetime has it been so tied to an individual personality and a litmus test of are you completely compliant and are you, you know, are you on board with me as a person as opposed to

party. i keep talking to members of your conference. republicans leaders in point of fact, including in the freedom caucus, congressman, who act like we are going to ignore ryan and maybe he'll not harm us too badly if we follow in lock step right into the chasm that awaits them in november. >> you are right on that, lou. the agenda is what got president trump elected. but let's talk about the daca thing for a second. i hear people say don't say the amnesty word. what do you think the so-called fix the daca is? it's amnesty. it's everything the president campaigned against. i think that opens up a blue wave. because you are not keeping your promises. and that gets to the trump agenda all over again it's easy to make it up and say we are not going -- it's not amnesty. but it is amnesty. anybody else is outside the country. so i fear to see the bill come up next week. lou: we have 23 people in your conference who signed on. they revealed themselves for what they are. more not on rinos. and they sold out their party. they are selling out their own int

if you had -- republican party to the center and so on. if you had me here three years ago, i would have said that we are slowly pulling the republican slightly to the center. trump came and blue all that up -- blew all that up. i think we should feel that our efforts were insufficient and we misread where the country was and really the seriousness of a lot of our problems here in bc d.c. but as a country as a whole. do you work for james bennett? >ross: i do. i am not based in new york right now. i live in new haven. as hees, he is my bus, was my boss at "the atlantic." : what would he say your columns are about over the last several years? say: i think that he would is everyone is aware that "the new york times" has a fairly liberal readership. there is an inside the bubble thinking. i think he would say that the job of a good conservative columnist for his page is at least in part to sort of expose readers to ideas outside the bubble in a way that interest them without infuriating them or alienating them or making them dismiss conservati

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republicans saying right now the cult of donald trump is the republican party. it's actually more complicated than that. the new trump republicans and the old republicans disagree on some big issues. there is a history of injustice in this country that goes back to the very first day. but there's also a history of people pushing for justice. when we think about fighting the injustice that is this president, i think we should take pride in trying to be part of that tradition. we have a president that has lied over and over again. you know, donald trump is not a law-abiding citizen. president trump has made an abomination of the office. and the wolf huffed and puffed... like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. so my doctor said... symbicort can help you breathe better. starting within 5 minutes. it doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. doctor: symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more

republican party.gest enemies are the republican party. and it shouldn't be losing people when cane went to capitol hill. he went because he knew the free traders are. he had basic backing when he said going to the negotiations i understand that congress is full of free traders from the heritage and kato and also democrats i got free traders there. trump has done an amaze be job. he has taken us farther than anybody with china. he has real engagement. it's not happening overnight. but you'll see in the next six months to a year i think a real recalibration of the relationship with china we are putting america first and stop being treated as a tributary state. right now it's barbarian management we are james town to great britain. we send natural gas, soybeans hogs and they send us back -- they send us back advanced manufacturing. >> let me ask you from the poif of somebody in the republican establishment -- i've talked to a few after that column you referenced. they said look from our poif things are w

the republican party in the midterms.o lose 50 seats if they put up with ryan much longer. >> and bust of fentynol was busted. it is estmaefted to kill people. and mr. ryan, leave the border open, because there is a lot of americans, you apparently deserve to die to have their lives destroyed. tell us how you are a big bad opens guy. they seized 6000 pounds of narcotics in a typical day throughout the year. and yet speaker ryan special perfectly awe lowable to have americans to die. the hell with the american people. joining us now ed rollins former reagan white house political director. and grea american pac chairman. i am so disgusted with the justice department and the leadership, i could puke if you want to know the truth. >> the president promised a drain swamp and it is getting bigger. the new f.b.i. director worked for comey. >> lou: did you hear that smug self rightous. >> how do you investigate hillary who violated the law and took government documents. and they are all doing the same thing. >> lou: they are cont

. >> and that speak tuesday the bigger question of the republican party. ronald reagan's repubca party in california, which is almost extinct. as a republican from california said to me today, it's definitely an endangered species getting there. because you mentioned this system it is possible maybe even probable that certainly in the senate race, the race to defeat diane feinstein who's running for the sixth term, that she is going to go up against a fellow democrat, there won't be a republican in the general. and same goes for the governor's race, the race to replace jerry. you have two democrats who are very strong, gavin newsom and the former mayor of los angeles and then you have sort of the lone republican. the house majority leader kevin mccarthy put together an effort, the gas tax repeal on the ballot to lure republicans to the voting booths today. unclear if that's going to help. >> want to quickly run through all the races to watch. iresume there are no results in califor what on the map shou looking for tonight? obviously in california it could t

as david know, nixon got done in by his tapes but also republican party like barry goldwater. we have to see if republicans are willing to hold donald trump to some kind of standard. >> we'll talk a bit about that in the next block. stand by. you're back with me. thank you so much for your thoughts. prominent republicans speaking out saying their party is dormant. >>> questions abound about the first lady after 24 days without seeing her. >>> a dozen people in hawaii stranded after a volcano cuts off their final escape route. we're live on the big island. a bachelor. and that's how he intended to keep it. then he met the love of his life. who came with a three foot, two inch bonus. for this new stepdad, it's promising to care for his daughter as if she's his own. every way we look out for those we love is an act of mutuality. we can help with the financial ones. learn more or find an advisor at massmutual.com we can help with the financial ones. you turned a family recipeher, into a brewing empire before prohibition took it all away. i promised our family i'd find your lost rec

the republican party in 13 would ound nominees around the country to help them with these issues likemmigration. this is sort of what happens when you don't have a party infrastructure. assroots. >> they tried this, there was an autopsy after the campaign. >> they didn't implement the autopsy. i don't know if they had the power. >> they had no ability to repe even if they had it's unclear voters would have responded well to that. ly, voters would have had a backlash if the republicans ates in various pl the i agree, i think it's short sighted because i think it harms the republican brand going forward. for right now, 2018, the only way republicans win this midterm election hold onto the senate and the house is if they are able to drive they wedge iss hard. the president does t bet th anybody else. >> republicans in congress who strongly disagree with the press's tariffs are not eager to go after him. the last the rub leaders want is a battle between him and president trump going into theterm election. they know he has to be their side. are assessing that risk. they are not sure what t

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our top stories, a battle for the soul of the republican party now under way. whether rino speaker paul ryan will be allowed to leave the rty to certain defeat in the mid-terms. following his masters, the business round table and the chamber of commerce and the koc brothers into the aby or will lawmakers follow trump and legislate first and foremost for american working families and the middle class who have been run over by the donor class and the establishment that controlled the gop for decades. the establishment, ryan and senate majority leader mcconnell were stunned by last nighs pmary results. president trump again the winner as were the candidates he endorsed. voters in south carolina siding with kate arrington, the candidate who erace the tmp agenda and challenged mark sanford an establishment never trumper. >> we are the party of president donald j. trump. lou: katie arrington is joining us here tonight. we'll be talking about the trump agenda. the fight also raging on capitol hill where deep state forces determined to subvert president trump also want

is this republican party the party of trump?do you recognize that as the same party you started out in? >> absolutely it's the same party. george will, i like his baseball book, too. i would hope he would go to middle america and talk to some of the trump voters. talk to the former democrat blue collar voters who gave him the victories in wisconsin, iowa, michigan, pennsylvania, ohio and other states. but george -- and mr. schmidt, too. remember, they live out here in the d.c. bubble. go talk to those voters who put president trump in place. and his goal to make a republican party and a republican house more of a governing house would actually be the antithesis of what he's asking for if he says, go vote against republicans, because most republicans who could lose are the ones who want to govern. >> if anything, it could make it -- i do take your point on that. kevin mclaughlin, final words. >> i'm with the congressman. between washington, d.c., new york conservatives and everyone else out there, fly over country. it's a huge di

republican party.d it shouldn't be losing people when cane went to capitol hill. he went because he knew the free traders are. he had basic backing when he said going to the negotiations i understand that congress is full of free traders from the heritage and kato and also democrats i got free traders there. trump has done an amaze be job. he has taken us farther than anybody has ever done with china. he has real engagement. it's not happening overnight. but you'll see in the next six months to a year i think a real recalibration of the relationship with china we are putting america first and stop being treated as a tributary state. right now it's barbarian management 101. we are jamestown, they are great britain. we send natural gas, soybeans hogs and they send us back -- they send us back advanced manufacturing. >> let me ask you from the point of view of somebody in the republican establishment, and i've talked to a few after that column you referenced. they said look from our point of view, things

. >> there is no republican party.mp party. republican party is taking a nap somewhere. >> and "the washington post's" pa paul -- this president not only promotes but demands. what matters to him is hutch less where you stand than whether you display the procedure level of devotion, lauding his keen mind and marveling at his gigantic hands. do all that and the republican base won't turn on you. that seems to be more or less the case. >> well, when we look add at the last election cycle as republicans we had 16 candidates and i remember sitting in a room with people far more important than me saying we're going find out who we are now. we're going to find out who the republican party is going to be. great debate cycle. all the super stars in it. and we found out what the base wanted and what they wanted. throw everybody in washington out. drain the swamp. illegal immigration. and donald trump won. he does demand loyalty. no question about that. so at the end of the day, we're defining, and i hear what bob corker, who's

so i hope the republican party can come back. your membership? you will stand in the party and do what? stand against him as president? i hope someone else does run in the republican primary. would you? i have not ruled it out, but i would rather not. i have been in politics for 18 years, i would rather wait until this breaks. i could go give a speech in new hampshire because i think republicans are dying to know that there are real republicans and conservatives out there who are... so you will stand at some point to run for president? i am not saying that. you are not not saying that, that. you are not not saying that, thatis that. you are not not saying that, that is what is so interesting.” that. you are not not saying that, that is what is so interesting. i do hope somebody goes out to remind republicans what republicans stand for and what conservatives stand for and they offer an optimistic vision of where we should go. you talk about the situation being a recipe for disaster and had used the word danger, the pendulum needs t

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to the broader question john boehner saying there is no republican party anymore. republican on trade. he thinks he is right. listen to marco rubio, one of those republicans who lost in the primaries to donald trump trying to strike the balance. >> i would challenge the idea it is the trump era. the bottom line is he got elected and voters chose him to be our nominee and president. my job is to serve in the senate and work with him. >> i would challenge the idea it's the trump era. you can't challenge that idea, can you? i get marco rubio's position. you don't want to say we are just puppets now in donald trump's party. it is the trump era. marco rubio stands up to him. it is the trump era. >> this is wishful thinking on marco rubio's part. this is president trump's party. john boehner is completely right not only on tariffs and immigration. think about one of the central pillars was the national debt which tops $20 trillion. the deficit will reach highest levels that it has been in almost a decade because of tax overhaul and spending. the president wants to spend m