And I gotta say, the left was certain we could never defund them. And I will tell you on the Senate floor, as we were taking up the rescissions package, so President Trump sent a package of some $9 billion of rescissions federal spendings to call back. We were battling on the floor and we had, it was beyond 2 in the morning. It was very, very unclear if we were going to prevail because I got to say there were several Republicans who were wobbly. (17:48–17:56)
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