John Cornyn: “It really is the foundation, I think, upon which it's going to be built.”

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

the fact of the matter, it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.

Didn't we do this once before?

There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter [is] it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.