WMAL Interview - LARRY KUDLOW - 03.14.17

INTERVIEW — LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm and author of “JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity”

Trump to draw battle lines with his budget. President Trump will send his budget to Capitol Hill Thursday, setting off a brawl with Democrats as well as fellow Republicans who are alarmed over a range of proposed deep cuts to federal programs. Trump’s ambitious fiscal blueprint will break the de facto truce that Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) negotiated in 2013 — and leaders renewed with the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act — that ended years of bitter fighting over defense and discretionary spending.
HHS secretary Tom Price slams CBO score: It’s ‘just not believable’
NEWT GINGRICH: “They should abolish the Congressional Budget Office. It is corrupt, it is dishonest, it was totally wrong on Obamacare.”
Trump signs executive order to cut government waste. President Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at cutting waste in the federal government.  Trump signed the measure in the Oval Office, telling reporters it requires a “thorough examination of every executive department and agency” to find out “where money is being wasted [and] how services can be improved.” The order does not seek a set amount of cuts, but it could result in a push to eliminate entire federal agencies or dramatically cut the size of the federal workforce.