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00:00Okay, good afternoon, folks, and I'm proud to be joined by my colleagues, Senators Merkley,
00:28Warren, Baldwin, Blumenthal, and Wyden, and thank them for joining me in standing up against
00:36tax cuts for billionaires and for fighting for working families.
00:40That's what we're doing.
00:41So today, the Senate Republicans will vote to move forward with a budget resolution that
00:47will decimate Medicaid, housing, veterans, SNAP, and more, all in pursuit of tax cuts
00:54for their billionaires' club.
00:56It will highlight the devastating Trump tariff tax, all to help the billionaires as well.
01:03And since they don't want to tell you how much this will cost, allow me.
01:08If passed, this will add $37 trillion to the national debt.
01:14That's more than double the totality of our national debt today.
01:18And I find this very interesting because some of the same Senators have had very deep concerns
01:24about the debt not too long ago, and are now on board with this reckless, irresponsible plan.
01:32Let me give you a couple of quotes.
01:33I have a whole bunch, but I'm only doing two.
01:37Senator Thune, we need to start tackling this debt, and we need to start doing it now.
01:43Senator Cruz, debt is out of control, and it's jeopardizing the future for our kids.
01:49I've got two little kids, and the idea of handing them a $16 trillion debt I think is immoral.
01:56So what does he think of $37 trillion if 16 is immoral?
02:01Now American families are going to be screwed by these cuts, not to mention the higher costs
02:07they'll be saddled with because of the crippling Trump tariff tax coming our way.
02:14We welcome the opportunity to have this debate in the open for all Americans to see.
02:20So tonight, Senate Democrats will do everything in our power to do what Republicans won't do, fight for American families.
02:31People are going to see who's on whose side.
02:34They are for the billionaires, we are for American families.
02:39And under the Republican plan, families lose, billionaires win.
02:43I could sum up the whole fight very, very succinctly.
02:48So tonight, we'll focus, during debate time, on preserving Medicaid.
02:54Tomorrow, we'll continue with preventing tax cuts for billionaires, protecting veterans and national security,
03:01exposing corruption within the administration, defending Social Security,
03:07and stopping the seemingly never-ending rise of cost to American families
03:12highlighted by the Trump tax, tariff tax.
03:16Tonight, you'll see our caucus forcing votes, fighting for American families,
03:22and asking Republicans where they stand and who exactly they're fighting for.
03:27And on top of gutting essential programs, as much as we saw in the budget that's been revealed,
03:32their proposal that's been revealed in the last few days, yesterday, and I'll focus on the tariffs here.
03:39Yesterday, the President made one of the dumbest decisions in history,
03:44one that will negatively impact every single American family, every single one.
03:50He's walking us into the dumbest and most avoidable recession, probably, in history.
03:56And let's call the Trump tariff tax, for what they really are, a huge tax hike on American families.
04:04And not just any tax hike, uh-uh.
04:06J.P. Morgan called it, quote, the equivalent to the largest tax increase since 1968.
04:13Here's what Bloomberg said, quote, roughly $2 trillion was erased from the S&P 500 at the start of U.S. trading on Thursday,
04:22amid worries that President Donald Trump's sweeping new round of tariffs could plunge the economy into a recession.
04:29And it claims more than 80 percent of the companies in the S&P were trading lower.
04:35Stock market has plummeted. Retirement savings are tanking. Consumer confidence is falling.
04:41Consumer expectations for the future are historically low. Companies are already announcing layoffs.
04:47I saw Stellantis just knocked off eight, was going to fire 800 people, lay them off.
04:53All for these Trump tax, the Trump tariff tax. All for that, so they can have more money to reduce taxes on the billionaires.
05:04The average American family is going to pay more for everything.
05:08For food, for gas, for cars, for groceries, for clothing, for beer, for you name it.
05:15It makes no sense. And the bottom line is that they're not fighting for American families.
05:26They're just aiding and abetting what they're doing and making it even worse with the Trump tariff tax.
05:34They even decided that they would tax penguins.
05:40What?
05:42Because two islands are included. I forgot the names of the islands, they're not here.
05:48Not Greenland.
05:50Not Greenland. There are two islands that were included that only have penguins on them.
05:54But they were included in the Trump tariff tax.
05:58Get those penguins.
06:00Right. But that shows how haphazard, how sloppy, how careless they are.
06:05One final thing here.
06:07This Trump administration is run by a group of billionaires.
06:11They're in a billionaire bubble.
06:13These billionaires don't have any understanding of what the American family is going through and how much worse it will be with the Trump budget and with the Trump tariff tax.
06:25They're just isolated.
06:27They don't understand.
06:29They're mean. They're nasty.
06:31They're uncaring.
06:34Tonight and tomorrow, we're going to show the American people just who they are.
06:38Senator Merkley.
06:40Thank you very much, Leader Schumer.
06:42And to my colleagues who are going to lay out some of the specific points.
06:46But let's understand this.
06:48Republican plan is simply four words.
06:52Families lose.
06:54Billionaires win.
06:56They want to cut programs for families and health care and housing and education.
07:01Things that help create a living wage job.
07:03One and a half to two trillion dollars.
07:05What?
07:07To fund more tax giveaways to the very richest Americans.
07:13It's a great betrayal, certainly, of the American family.
07:17And in the process, they're going to put an enormous burden on the generations to come.
07:2337 trillion is the bottom of what the range might be that their bill will cost.
07:2937 trillion.
07:31Our current GDP, annual amount we produce each year, is only around 30 trillion dollars.
07:39They want to put an additional debt of 37 trillion dollars.
07:41Or let's look at the current debt.
07:43In 249 years since our independence, we have run up a debt that is just shy of 37 trillion dollars.
07:52That's how big.
07:54In one decision, one bill, in one year, they want to increase the burden on the generations to come.
08:00This is really sickening.
08:04The economists point out that that burden will reduce the economy in the future.
08:08That it will raise interest rates in the future.
08:10That that burden will reduce the ability to have the foundations for families to thrive in the future.
08:14It's so sickening.
08:17Every one of my Republican colleagues who has talked about fiscal responsibility
08:21should rush to the bathroom and throw up in the toilet.
08:25That's how sickening this situation is with additional debt.
08:29Now we've heard about a magic wand called Section 312.
08:35Section 312, interesting, has never, ever, in the history of our country,
08:41ever been used on a reconciliation bill.
08:46Never used.
08:48It's only been used on narrow anomalies in regular spending bills to solve naughty little problems of estimate.
08:54It is a completely inappropriate vessel to use, just by precedent,
09:00but also recognize that in reconciliation there are explicit instructions called the Byrd Rule
09:06on how you estimate the impact of debt.
09:11The impact of any policy option or any revenue option on the amount of deficits that will be created.
09:15Those explicit instructions are ones that we will turn to when we get to the reconciliation bill.
09:21Section 312, totally inappropriate.
09:25There are three pillars that came in 1974.
09:29Realize back then we were adding about $6 billion, not trillion, $6 billion to our debt each year.
09:35$6 billion in deficit.
09:37And folks said, oh my goodness, this is so high.
09:39Let's do a couple things.
09:41Think about these three pillars.
09:43No additional, no reconciliation bill can produce any additional debt in a 10-year period.
09:49In fact, it has to reduce the deficit.
09:51Second of all, in any given year after the first 10, it cannot increase the deficit.
09:57Third pillar, we have to have honesty.
09:59No smoke and mirrors, no gimmicks.
10:01That honesty means we're going to create the Congressional Budget Office
10:03and we're going to use those nonpartisan estimates.
10:06Back in 1996, the Republicans struck down the first pillar
10:10and said in those first 10 years, you can increase the deficits.
10:14Now today, they're striking down the second pillar,
10:16saying no deficits year by year after the first 10 years.
10:20And the third pillar, that is the use of nonpartisan numbers generated by CBO.
10:26If you care anything about fiscal responsibility, you would be a hell no on this bill.
10:33Fiscal responsibility is being thrown overboard.
10:35No, they have a plan.
10:37Families lose, billionaires win.
10:39We have a plan too.
10:41Families win and billionaires pay their fair share.
10:43Thank you, Jeff.
10:45Senator Baldwin on Medicaid.
10:47Medicaid.
10:49So, good afternoon.
10:51As you've already heard from my colleagues,
10:53Republicans are going to try every which way to hide their plans
10:57that will create new tax breaks for the wealthiest
11:02and pay for it by cutting Medicaid.
11:04We are going to watch Republicans tie themselves in knots
11:08to somehow say they are not cutting Medicaid
11:12and ripping the rug out from our families.
11:14But they will not be able to escape the truth.
11:18The truth here, and more importantly, the truth our constituents will feel,
11:24is that this Republican budget plan will cut Medicaid to the bone
11:31and take health care from children,
11:33from people with disabilities,
11:35from seniors,
11:37and from our most vulnerable.
11:39You've all heard the numbers.
11:4172 million Americans,
11:438 million seniors,
11:45a third of all children
11:47rely on Medicaid
11:49for their health care.
11:51But these numbers have real faces
11:53and real stories behind them.
11:55Real people in my state
11:57and every single state that my Republican colleagues represent
12:01who rely on Medicaid
12:03for life-saving care.
12:05We're talking about children who need Medicaid to see a doctor.
12:09We're talking about rural hospitals
12:11that without Medicaid would close.
12:15We're talking about people like my own mother
12:19who relied on Medicaid
12:21at the end of her life
12:23to pay for skilled nursing care.
12:26And this Republican budget
12:28is coming after that care.
12:30All to make sure that big corporations
12:32and people like Elon Musk
12:34and Donald Trump
12:36and their rich friends
12:38get new tax breaks.
12:40While Republicans either outright lie
12:42to the people
12:44or do Olympic-level mental gymnastics
12:48to try to explain how
12:50slashing Medicaid
12:52is somehow not slashing Medicaid,
12:55we are going to put their feet to the fire.
12:59If they claim they are not cutting Medicaid,
13:01okay, then show us.
13:03Show the kids who rely on Medicaid
13:07that you're not taking it from them.
13:09Show the seniors who rely on Medicaid
13:11that you aren't taking it from them.
13:15Show the people with disabilities
13:17who rely on Medicaid
13:19that you are not taking it away from them.
13:21Republicans have a real choice
13:24and it's not too late
13:26to side with working families
13:28over their rich friends.
13:30The question is,
13:32who will the Republicans choose?
13:36Thank you very much.
13:38We're going to talk about taxes.
13:40That's right.
13:42Donald Trump, Elon Musk
13:44and the spineless Republicans
13:46in Congress
13:48have tried to create a sandstorm
13:50so that everyone will be distracted.
13:53There's something going on every minute
13:55looking 50 different directions
13:57because they don't want us to look
13:59at the number one place
14:01they are driving this country
14:03and that is trillions of dollars
14:05in tax cuts for billionaires
14:07paid for on the backs
14:09of seniors,
14:11on the backs of little kids,
14:13on the backs of veterans
14:15and on the backs of everybody in America
14:17who is hoping that
14:19some medical research breakthrough
14:21will help a beloved family member
14:23who's dealing with a terrible disease.
14:25Don't believe us?
14:27Just listen to the Republicans
14:29themselves.
14:31During our last go-round
14:33on this budget, the Democrats
14:35stood up and said,
14:37if you're not going to do tax cuts
14:39for the wealthiest among us,
14:41let's just put that in the bill.
14:43Can we just write that down, put it in the bill
14:45and say not going to be any tax cuts
14:47above this level.
14:49And we said, could we just agree
14:51in the United States Senate
14:53that no one who
14:55earns more than
14:57$10 million
14:59in taxable
15:01income in a single year
15:03that is
15:05two one thousandths
15:07of our population
15:09that none of those people making more
15:11than $10 million in a year
15:13will see any
15:15tax giveaways in your
15:17budget?
15:19Every Democrat said yes,
15:21every Republican said
15:23no. We've got to preserve
15:25the ability to help those folks.
15:27So we said, okay, okay,
15:29if $10 million
15:31is too low for you,
15:33those people are just too close to poverty
15:35to be able to promise they're not
15:37going to get any tax giveaways,
15:39how about $100 million
15:41in annual income?
15:43Once again,
15:45every Democrat said, yeah, let's put the cap
15:47there, and every single
15:49Republican voted no.
15:51So we said, okay, okay, we get it.
15:53How about
15:55a half a billion
15:57dollars? If your income
15:59in a single year is
16:01a half a billion dollars or more,
16:03would you at least agree
16:05that those folks will not
16:07get a tax giveaway
16:09in the Republican budget?
16:11And every single Republican
16:13said, nope, got to preserve
16:15the opportunity to hand out
16:17those tax breaks
16:19for people making more than half a billion
16:21dollars a year. So we decided
16:23to cap it off with a full
16:25billion. A full
16:27billion dollars in taxable
16:29incomes. Could we just
16:31agree, as a United States
16:33Senate, that anybody
16:35making a billion
16:37dollars a year in taxable income
16:39will not get
16:41a big tax
16:43cut from the Republicans?
16:45And not one
16:47single Republican supported
16:49that. Every one
16:51of them said, nope, got to preserve
16:53the opportunity for
16:55tax giveaways for
16:57our billionaire friends.
16:59After all, let's remember, Donald
17:01Trump promised his—remember
17:03the word?—rich as hell donors
17:05that he was going to deliver
17:07on those tax giveaways.
17:09He's got his co-president Elon
17:11Musk in there helping him right
17:13now grease the skids on that
17:15with all these cuts in the federal budget
17:17elsewhere. And that
17:19is where we stand.
17:21It's that families lose
17:23and billionaires win.
17:25Now here's the trick
17:27in the game. They created
17:29a sandstorm hoping
17:31that we will be talking about 50
17:33other things while they try to advance
17:35this budget over the next 36
17:37hours. There's lots going
17:39on. There's tariffs. There's invading
17:41Greenland. Who knows what Donald
17:43Trump has done just while we've been standing
17:45up here. Why
17:47do that? Because the
17:49Republican approach
17:51is deeply unpopular.
17:53Not just unpopular
17:55with Democrats. It is deeply
17:57unpopular with Democrats,
17:59with Republicans,
18:01with independents, with
18:03libertarians, with vegetarians.
18:05In fact, the only people who really
18:07support this are the billionaires
18:09themselves. But most
18:11of America think that those
18:13billionaires should be paying a
18:15fair share in taxes.
18:17Most Americans believe that Jeff
18:19Bezos should not be
18:21paying taxes at a lower rate
18:23than a Boston public school teacher.
18:25So that's what the next
18:2736 hours is all
18:29about. It's about the Republicans
18:31hoping
18:33that most of America
18:35won't notice what they're
18:37doing. And that is putting
18:39out a budget with
18:41trillions of dollars in tax
18:43cuts for billionaires
18:45paid for on the backs
18:47of seniors, little
18:49kids, veterans,
18:51and everybody who wants
18:53to see America invest in
18:55our research future, our medical
18:57future. The Republicans
18:59hope that everybody
19:01will be looking everywhere else as
19:03they try to ram their unpopular
19:05plan through. The job of the
19:07Democrats over the next 36
19:09hours is to hold the Republicans
19:11feet to the fire, force
19:13them to tell the truth about
19:15what they want to do to the
19:17American economy and
19:19what they believe fairness is. And
19:21that is a country that works for a handful
19:23of billionaires and lets
19:25everybody else eat dirt. The Democrats
19:27are in this fight all the way. We're
19:29ready to go.
19:31Senator Blumenthal on veterans.
19:33Veterans and national
19:35security. I'm going
19:37to begin
19:39with a word that I
19:41told my children never to use.
19:43A four-letter word.
19:45D-U-M-B.
19:47Dumb.
19:49These policies
19:51combine cruelty and
19:53incompetence in a way
19:55that is dumber than
19:57anything we've seen in
19:59recent history, maybe in the history of the United States.
20:01They will inflict
20:03pain. These tariffs are
20:05attacks on people who
20:07put food on the table,
20:09build homes, buy cars,
20:11have to purchase pharmaceuticals,
20:13but they also undermine our
20:15national security because they're imposed
20:17on our allies, on
20:19Europe, not on
20:21our adversaries or enemies
20:23as much as our friends,
20:25including, by the way, Israel.
20:27Now,
20:29on veterans, dumb
20:31applies with
20:33absolute force
20:35because what we're seeing is a war
20:37on veterans, and we're going to hold
20:39our Republican colleagues
20:41accountable.
20:43The message that we are
20:45hearing from veterans around
20:47the country is they are rightly
20:49fearful about
20:51the cuts,
20:53the cuts in
20:55funding, the freezes
20:57in hiring,
20:59the firings
21:01that are occurring, and hitting
21:03our veterans in real time
21:05with real impact.
21:13And we're going to hold them accountable.
21:15We're going to be offering amendments
21:17that will force them to vote.
21:19Our Republican colleagues
21:21are dreading these next days
21:23because they're going to be put to the test,
21:25and those votes are going
21:27to haunt them because
21:29veterans know
21:31that they need the health care
21:33that comes at those
21:35hospitals like the West Haven facility
21:37in Connecticut, others around
21:39the country that are short-changed.
21:41There are now
21:4340,000
21:45vacant positions at the
21:47VA. Surgeons,
21:49nurses, counselors, janitors,
21:51schedulers.
21:5340,000 open positions
21:55and they're recruiting
21:57supposedly for those positions. At the same
21:59time, they are firing people that
22:01hold those positions right now.
22:03Makes no sense.
22:05And so, veterans
22:07around
22:09the country are demanding what
22:11the VFW commander
22:13demanded when he came before
22:15our committee, stop
22:17the bleeding.
22:19We're going to seek, through this
22:21next couple of days, to stop
22:23the bleeding in veterans'
22:25programs. We're going to make sure
22:27that Republicans are
22:29forced to answer what is happening right
22:31now at the VA
22:33where the bleeding threatens
22:35everyday veterans. We heard from a number
22:37of them yesterday at the
22:39shadow hearing we conducted.
22:41Right now, the Veterans Affairs
22:43Committee is not
22:45demanding that
22:47Doug Collins come and testify.
22:49We're going to demand that he do it.
22:51And we're going to demand
22:53that President Trump reverse
22:55these cuts, freezes,
22:57and firings that are causing
22:59such irreparable damage
23:01to veterans around the United States.
23:03And I'll just say,
23:05I think we owe the American people an apology.
23:07All of us who voted for
23:09Doug Collins. It was a mistake.
23:11I did it.
23:13I'm not repeating that mistake.
23:15I put a hold on all VA nominees.
23:17And
23:19I think part of what we're going
23:21to do is demand health
23:23care be protected,
23:25especially mental health care.
23:27No more cuts in the veterans' crisis
23:29line. And the PAC Act
23:31benefits that we supported
23:33in a bipartisan way
23:35protect those benefits as well.
23:37So,
23:39we're going to be out there
23:41working hard. And I
23:43want to introduce my great colleague,
23:45the senator from
23:47Oregon. The other senator from
23:49Oregon. 100% of Oregon
23:51senators are in the House.
23:53And my colleagues have said it very well.
23:55So, here we are,
23:5724 hours from the tariff
23:59announcement, which
24:01for farmers and
24:03families and small businesses
24:05is simply
24:07economic poison.
24:09And it is poison that is
24:11going to spread across the land,
24:13hammering families.
24:15Now we go to the next
24:17debate. And let me be
24:19blunt in terms of how
24:21I'm describing it to folks
24:23at home. We are
24:25going to see on full
24:27display by the Republicans
24:29for the American people
24:31a morally bankrupt
24:33bargain.
24:35That is my
24:37take on what this
24:39is all about.
24:41And no amount of
24:43gaslighting by
24:45the Senate Republicans
24:47can hide the true cost
24:49of what they're doing,
24:51the over $5 trillion
24:53and the consequences of the breaks
24:55to the billionaires
24:57and making sure
24:59they get their way,
25:01that people on Medicaid
25:03and hunger programs and the like
25:05pony up the revenue.
25:07Now, the
25:09reality is these cuts
25:11that were taken on tomorrow night
25:13are going to hit
25:15seniors and children
25:17like a wrecking ball
25:19from one end of the country to another.
25:21They're going to determine if your aging
25:23parents can be safe
25:25in a nursing home.
25:27I'm not kidding you. They're
25:29talking about cutting
25:31potentially staff.
25:33Mehmet Oz said, when I asked
25:35him, do you think
25:37there ought to be a nurse in
25:39a nursing home, he said,
25:41oh, that's complicated.
25:43I said, no, it's not
25:45complicated. I know you want to
25:47tell people who need help
25:49trying to get assistance
25:51in the night that somehow AI is going
25:53to work for them, but the reality
25:55is we Democrats know you've got to have
25:57some nurses. They're 24-7
25:59or people can
26:01die. So no amount
26:03of hiding behind
26:05the curtain, which is what we have seen in the
26:07Budget Committee, what we've seen in the Finance Committee,
26:09can hide the true cost of this tax
26:11plan where the handouts go to the
26:13billionaires and you pay for it by kicking
26:15millions of people off
26:17health insurance. In terms
26:19of American lives ruined and lost,
26:21the human toll
26:23of what the Republicans will
26:25inflict on America if they're allowed
26:27to get away with it is going to be
26:29horrific, and what you're hearing
26:31this afternoon is Senate
26:33Democrats are going to pull out all the stops
26:35to keep that kind of consequence
26:37from hitting the American people
26:39starting in a few days.
26:41Thank you. Thank you, Ron. First,
26:43the islands.
26:45They are the Heard and
26:47McDonald Island.
26:49They are covered
26:51by tariffs. Russia isn't.
26:53So basically, what Trump
26:55is doing is taxing penguins,
26:57not Putin.
26:59The only living things on those islands are
27:01the penguins are there.
27:03There are no people. Questions on
27:05this subject? Yes.
27:07Senator Schumer, we saw Senator Booker
27:09take the floor for 25 hours
27:11and gave you and your conference quite a bit of attention
27:13to the issues that you care about.
27:15You have in front of you an opportunity here
27:17with Votorama to hold the floor
27:19as long as humanly possible
27:21to try and extend this out.
27:23How long are you willing to go
27:25to make your point?
27:27You're going to see the points we made here
27:29and other points that
27:31Donald Trump, the Republican
27:33Senate, and the Republicans
27:35are having families lose,
27:37billionaires win, you'll see made
27:39in a whole bunch of different amendments
27:41on different subjects. Yes.
27:43Senator, can you preview some of those amendments
27:45and how many do you expect related
27:47to tariffs? Well, you'll see them on the floor
27:49and there will be amendments reflecting
27:51the tariff issue. Yes.
27:53Just to follow up on Ryan's question,
27:55obviously, Senator Booker's speech got
27:57a lot of attention. It was great.
27:59For being over 25 hours, will
28:01Democrats commit to going at least 25
28:03hours? You're going to see
28:05a whole lot of amendments going after Donald
28:07Trump and the Republicans on a
28:09whole bunch of issues where they are
28:11favoring billionaires and
28:13against families. Yes, Sahil.
28:15If Republicans are able to
28:17succeed at using current policy
28:19baseline in this bill for reconciliation,
28:21what kind of a precedent would that set?
28:23Look, first, I'm going to call on
28:25Jeff, our expert on this, but first,
28:27let me say this. The American people are
28:29not interested in the arcane aspects
28:31of reconciliation
28:33policy. They want to know
28:35how it affects them. What they're
28:37doing is a $37
28:39trillion increase in
28:41the deficit. And why is it
28:43done? So they can
28:45cut taxes on billionaires.
28:47So that's the
28:49bottom line here, what it's doing.
28:51And not just what it's doing to
28:53America today. What it's doing
28:55to our children and our grandchildren
28:57in terms of this enormous, enormous
28:59debt that is going to be on their
29:01shoulders. And we all know
29:03sooner or later, you pay
29:05the price for debt, and it will happen
29:07sooner than people think with the
29:09enormity of what they're doing.
29:11You want to get specific? Sure.
29:13Absolutely.
29:15I want to emphasize again
29:17that one of the pillars in 1974,
29:19so now over half
29:21a century, has been collectively
29:23we need to have integrity
29:25in the estimate of what any tax
29:27provision or policy provision
29:29would inflict in terms of cost
29:31or revenue. And thus
29:33we will depend on CBO.
29:35That's extremely important. So the
29:37Republicans said, well, you know, we'll just create
29:39phony numbers to create a
29:41phony estimate and say all
29:43of these tax provisions that will increase
29:45and create $37 trillion of debt
29:47already existed far into the
29:49future, but they don't exist far into the future. That's
29:51why it's a fraud. That's why
29:53it's phony. That's why it's
29:55a deliberate deception to pretend to the American
29:57people they're not adding massively to the debt.
29:59So they thought, well, maybe we'll just
30:01put a clause into
30:03the budget resolution that
30:05says we'll use this fraudulent system.
30:07And then it became so clear
30:09that it was so out of
30:11sync with our precedents that
30:13they even withdrew it.
30:15Now, essentially, this conversation
30:17about integrity goes forward
30:19not on the budget resolution, but
30:21on the reconciliation bill.
30:23So we'll be well prepared
30:25to say it was fraud on the budget resolution.
30:27It's also fraud
30:29on the reconciliation bill.
30:31Can I just add a bit of
30:33context
30:35here? You know, what I'm hearing from people
30:37in Connecticut is not reconciliation.
30:39It's not CBO.
30:41It's prices
30:43of gasoline and groceries.
30:45It's
30:47what will happen to my children's education.
30:49So I think that
30:51Senator Schumer and
30:53Senator Wyden make exactly
30:55the right point. We are going to
30:57reach American people
30:59at their pocketbooks, in their
31:01everyday lives, not with
31:03the kind of inside-the-beltway
31:05stuff that most
31:07people are focusing on here.
31:09Feeling any pressure from the base
31:11of this?