Jen Psaki
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Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.
We have to take care of one thing, military protection.
So yesterday, the White House was adamant that those comments were taken out of context.
Not quite sure what context would help here, but today the White House published its budget proposal.
Now, the thing you have to know about a government is they can say all the things they want, but the budget is where the priorities of the government actually come in.
And the budget shows that those comments we just played for you were absolutely not taken out of context.
Trump is calling on Congress to increase the military's budget by more than 40 percent for zero.
He wants one point five trillion dollars of your taxes for the military.
He wants to dramatically cut domestic social services to square that bill.
That'll sound familiar to many of you.
But at the same time, Trump is saying that the government can't afford to support American families, saying that he needs all that money for his war.
This is the peace president who didn't want to get us into wars.
And here's the thing.
Trump's own family seems to be cashing in on the war.
Weeks ago, The New York Times reported that Trump's son-in-law was asking Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states for billions of dollars in new investments while simultaneously acting as one of America's top negotiators in the region.
He says he's a government volunteer, but he and Steve Witkoff are apparently central to this whole negotiation with Iran.
Kushner's investment firm, Affinity Partners, insists that it is following the law, and the White House said Kushner is only acting in the best interest of the American public.
I feel better now.
But now we have new reporting showing that it isn't just Jared Kushner that might be profiting off of this war.
Last night, the Associated Press reported that a drone company backed by Trump's adult sons, Eric and Don Jr., is actively trying to sell their drones to Gulf countries that are under attack from Iran, countries that need the support of the military, of which Eric and Don Jr.