Thom Tillis: “I’m hearing a $300bn number and that’s concerning to me, so I just need the details.”

The key there is exactly what I’ve said. That this agreement, the 1776 fund, needs to go away, and the language with respect to audits needs to be very tightly tailored.

It gives the Democrats gold to mine between now and the election. This is about as politically tone deaf a posture as I have seen in this administration.

I had been one who had worked with Blanche to try and get language that we could put through [by unanimous consent] on the floor if we needed to.

Canceling August recess, where we have to have our members out campaigning and connecting with their voters, and people not understanding that, is about as tone-deaf as telling everybody to stay home in 2020 when we lost [Kelly] Loefler…