Thank you so much, Ms. Ledger. Fernandez, you hit the nail on the head. There are zero guardrails in this bill. And that is, I believe, by design. And why Republicans have chosen to use reconciliation instead of the normal appropriations process. through reconciliation. There are very strict rules, one of them the Byrd rule. So it's very difficult to add in policy on the Senate side. (00:49–00:55)
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