Well, I'll certainly leave those internal negotiations to the speaker and to my dear friend Tom Cole and to the White House. But the reality is, is that, you know, We need to get the 12 appropriation bills done on time, something that the Congress, Democrat or Republican, has ever done in the last 25 years. That's a real problem. That's. I would say that's the baseline issue with our huge deficits that we're having and the runaway debt that we have is that we're not doing the people's work. (07:13–07:22)
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