Had everyone known it would be $534 billion, it may have caused a few other members of Congress to not get on board. And that would have been helpful, frankly, to those of us that didn't want to see it passed.
Rep. Flake expresses concern that the underestimated cost of the Medicare Reform Bill may have influenced Congressional support.
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I will. As I mentioned in the statement, they need to know that any purchase of additional Russian weapons will result in additional CAATSA sanctions.
I think it's certainly detrimental to the country, and I think ultimately detrimental to Republicans.
It has, and that's the tragic legacy of the Trump years, the normalization of -- I mean, accepting of falsehoods, trafficking in conspiracy theories.
If you just dismiss all of that and just talk politics, at some point here soon, Republicans are going to have to decide whether or not they want to be tethered to the president politically.
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