Republicans cannot cave on their $1.5 trillion wish list. We just can't afford it. We really can't. You know, this country does not have a revenue problem, has a spending problem, big time. We need to go back to pre-pandemic spending. We're spending the same amount of money we were under Covid. We increased the spending because we had a pandemic. Pandemic's. Over. There is no reason for us to be at the levels of a pandemic. (31:02–31:05)
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