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Ted Cruz: “It remains the most politically indefensible decision I've…”

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And and it just took a majority vote, no Democrats. And we, I backed him and, and Mitch wouldn't do it. And we left so much good policy on the table. It remains the most politically indefensible decision I've ever seen [referring to not pursuing a second tax bill]. And I hope we don't do it under Trump's second term. And actually, John brought that up at lunch today. Yeah. Made that argument. And it's clearly. (33:34–33:38)

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