The Democrats are trying to hold the American hostage over $1.5 trillion to put in the waste, fraud and abuse that one big beautiful bill cut. We're giving the same language to them they've already voted on before four other times. So there's not even room to negotiate. So the president, in my opinion, was probably like, hey, there's no point in talking about this because you can't negotiate with crazy. (02:16–02:22)
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