John Cornyn: “I have also heard about early sunsets as a gimmick to avoid pay-go. How does that work?”

They just don’t want to do it.

It would be a monumental mistake for Blanche to attempt to resurrect the $1.8 billion program in another form.

If it would make a difference in the outcome, I'm fine with that, but it won't make a difference, which I don't believe it will, that it's an act of futility," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital.

That's a convenient excuse, and it happens to be untrue.