What's your take or response to people who say, well, why couldn't there have been compromise in the beginning between Democrats and Republicans to use some of that money from the public transit fund? Again, The Senate proposed to use existing capital dollars that were already earmarked for projects, shovels were already in the ground. and they also proposed to take a 50% discount on that transit money because they would have sent 50% of it to fund roads and bridges. (07:52–07:59)
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