us. today's show looks at topics and concerns affecting our local black and african-american communities. the us office of management and budget defines this racial category to include people who have origins in any of the black racial groups of africa, as well as afro-caribbean countries. the black community makes up the largest minority group in the country, yet the fight for equality continues in america. abc7 news anchor eric thomas is here with local black leaders to talk about the many important issues affecting our bay area communities. >> thanks, cheryl, and there are many topics to talk about. let's start with this -- our last bay area census back in 2010 found blacks make up 6.7% of the total bay area population. but that's almost a full percentage point drop from the previous census in 2000. it works out to a loss of about 30,000 individuals. the decline is more significant in san francisco, san mateo, and santa clara counties. in particular, san francisco has seen a steady drop of black residence over the years -- a 6.6 percentage difference since 1980, or 38,000 people, have left san francisco. today, the populati

there is a saying about the office of management and budget, then nobody outside of the beltway has heard of usand nobody outside knows what we do. everybody knows is because of the budget. the m part of omb deals with management. we work with every single agency on every one of their major regulations. the department of commerce, if they want to put out a new regulation, they have to work through us first. we are intimately involved with every single peace of regulation, and deregulation. the hardest part about the regulating was that the government forgot how to do it. it had been such a long time since anybody had told him to dereg. many of the people who were working at these agencies were not born the last time there was a major deregulation effort in the u.s. it has really been the president -- we are for means in a row where the number one topic was how are you doing on the de reg? it has been a priority for him, we are happy to get it done. [applause] >> can you give us an idea of a few or one of the most costly regulations you have come across? anything off the charts? ofthe two big on

of course, facing economic and fissile adversity is not new to us. when i took office in new mexico face a massive budget deficit, years of irresponsible spending during prosperous times made managing through the hard times that much harder. then as responsible budgeting gateway, political dysfunction in washington , the federal government and acted across the board spending cuts,/the spending in particular and thousands of federal government jobs were lost. and private, vocal companies that worked with the federal government were forced to scale back or to close. but they even shut down the federal government. that was something that hit us extremely hard in new mexico.then, the bottom fell out of the energy market . we lost 10,000 oil and gas jobs and state tax revenues plummeted. a steady drumbeat of economic adversity, much of it out of our control but all of it our responsibility to handle. adversity can breed apathy or growth, reform and innovation. in new mexico in the midst of these headwinds, we chose the right path. we didn't lean on the flimsy crotch of federal government. we set a new course and shows the diverse city of our economy instead. and despite the insistence o

and so i look forward to hearing from our witnesses -- our witness which ways the administration believes we can use taxpayer dollars more efficiently. today we have the opportunity to hear from office of management and budget director mick mulvaney. director mulvaney, thank you for coming this morning to discuss the president's fiscal year 2019 budget request. we look forward to your testimony and the opportunity to discuss possible solutions to the nation's budgetary woes. i also want to congratulate you on the documents, i only brought two of them that came yesterday, the two lightest ones. i want to congratulate you on how concise they are, how explicit they are and the difficulty that you went to to not only explain the budget but also to very specifically point out the major savings and reforms that are being suggested. it's one of the clear presentations that i have seen and i have seen a lot of them. the submission of the president's annual budget proposal marks an important first step in what should be an orderly budget process. over the years, however, under successive congresses and administrations, this process has broken down, leaving behind a confusing, illogical, wasteful maze of legislation

but i'm the director of office management budget and my job is to try and fund the president's priorities. >> walk ushis. >> i love it. >> in congress, mick mulvaney would have said huh-uh. but now i have to do it for the press. >> you have to give it up. this is the incessant dishonesty of the white house. this is a moment of honesty. he deserves our support for saying something that the rest of us know would be true. >> okay. all right. >> okay. gentlemen, thank you so much. we're going to end this with a valentine's hug with these two fellas. >>> guess what, the end of the show. and you know what that means. that means there is always room for good news because we think good news rules. check out this video. it's gone viral, thank you very much. that's a raleigh police officer giving an 8-year-old boy a hug after his family was effected from their hotel after being displaced by hurricane maria. the boy has adhd and autism and his mother can no longer afford his medication. but the officer didn't just give them a hug. he gave them money for a place to stay and set up a gofundme page. so for example

do is to introduce legislation to direct the office of management and budget to identify other areas in the federal balance sheet where the risk would be usedo protect taxpayers and i hope you could support that effort. also on export control reform, a point i was going to make, is as we discuss our economic security moving forward i share the concern of my colleagues in the foreign government-backed investments as critical that we look at those investments in u.s. technologies that might pose a national security risk. as you mentioned in your opening the committee is considering legislation to expand cfius in a way to address this threat. the foreign affairs committee which i chair is considering export control reform as an additional way to tackle the problem. would you support new authorities to restrict the export of critical technologies and countries that threaten the u.s. national security? >> i absolutely would. >> with that i will yield back. >> do you yield to the chairman? >> i yield my time mr. chairman. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. i want to go back to the fsoc designation process mr. secretary just to make sure i'm c

office of management and budget director mick mulvaney has likened it to blue apron, the companies that delivers uncooked meals, here he is. >> it lowers the cost to usecause we can buy prices at wholesale, we also make sure they are getting nutritious foo food. >> the program would save the federal government an estimated $129 billion over ten years. they trump administration is getting big time pushback for use in the blue apron analogy because critics say blue apron meals run about $10 apiece while food stamp meals averages 1.37. conservatives have always a arbor day special hostility for the food stamp program. some democratic lawmakers are almost also furious, massachusetts congressman jim mcgovern says the program sounds like something out of the great depression, not 2018. others say the current program is working just fine and people should be allowed to choose their own food. it is worth noting that since 1968, the u.s. population has gone up 68%. the food stamp program has gone up 1400%. >> shannon: thank you very much. president trump's border wall is getting closer to reality, companies are putting up the bids to construct a barrier along

use taxpayer dollars more efficiently. today we have the opportunity to hear from the office of management and budget director, mulvaney. mick we look forward to your testimony and the opportunity to discuss possible solutions to the nation's budgetary woes. i want to congratulate you on the documents that came yesterday. ones.ght the two lightest i want to congratulate you on how concise they are. how explicit they are, and the difficulty that you went to, not only to explain the budget but also to specifically point out the major savings and reforms that are being suggested. one of the clear presentations i've seen and i have seen a lot of them. the submission of the president to proposal marks an important first step in what should be in orderly budget process. under successive congresses and administrations, this process is broken down, leaving behind a confusing, illogical maze of legislation and ad hoc governing. an example of which was on display with the latest budget busting spending deal. instead offending the government we buy week or month by month we must address the structural deficiencies of the budget pr

senators argue that the office of management and budget are involved, breaking the custom where the work is managed by the treasury department and irs. tone any shrigle joins usation? >> i have no problem with o.m.b. being involved. i think we've got good leadership in o.m.b. and why not have another set of eyes to look at this, give it an economic analysis and, you know, we've had so many regulations over the last how many years, eight, 12 years, that have just gone amuck and so what's the harm? >> maria: people don't trust the irs after the scandal a couple years ago. >> it's so frustrating to sit here and look at o.m.b. and treasury fight with each other. the average american says i don't care how much you distrust each other. i want somebody to own this process and do it the right way. i don't want to hear in-fighting between the agencies. this is the sign of an unhealthy environment. >> maria: how do you not control your own agencies? there are people who are working against the president within the agencies. >> exactly. this is frustrating to me. i don't like more layers of bureaucracy. >> but my guess is, brian, that this happens in government every da

office of management and budget, the honorable mick mulvaney. during our hearing we will hear directly from the director of omb and we appreciate you being with us here today, mr. director. your insight will be very help of in our understanding. we see that the president's budget each year marks the beginning of the federal budgeting process or budget season as we like to call it, and the white house officially kicked it off on monday. while congress ultimately controls the purse strings, the president's budget request is still an important document for lawmakers to consider along the way. each fiscal year the administration's budget documents documents the president's policy and spending priority. these are important for both changes to consider as work crafting the budget resolution begins in earnest. without question there are plenty of worth while ideas included in the president's budget this year. first, i'm encouraged that the administration prioritizes and boosts the investment in our national defense. with mounting threats to our security both at home and abroad, it is critical that we provide for a strong and capable military. we must e