We want to deliver on the America first agenda that President Trump campaigned on and that we all campaigned on and all of its components. The way we get there is it takes a long deliberative process. We want to, for example, extend the Trump era tax cuts we have to mark because you and I know if we don't, we'll have the largest tax increase in U.S. history at the end of this year when all those tax cuts expire. But the challenge we have is that to do that costs about $4.5 trillion. So our deficit hawks and the people who are concerned about the nation's debt, as I … (02:00–02:11)
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