At a House Freedom Caucus press briefing, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) spoke about passing the reconciliation bill.
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00:00...encouraged by the progress that's been made in the last 24 hours.
00:03Obviously, the President came here yesterday, and he laid out a few things.
00:06He said, you know, don't go any further on SALT.
00:09He said, oh, by the way, eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid.
00:12That's fine. That's what the American people expect.
00:13And then he said, by the way, you have to eliminate the Green News scam.
00:17So in the last 24 hours, well, there was a little SALT deal made.
00:21I don't think it went in the right direction.
00:23But the White House offered a proposal late last night
00:26that I think fulfills the other two parts of what the President talked about.
00:30And there's a broad agreement in the House Freedom Caucus
00:33that if that's included in the package, I think this package is en route to get passed.
00:37I don't think it can be done today.
00:40I mean, the runway is short today.
00:42The leadership is going to have to figure out, you know, where to go from here.
00:45But I think progress is made.
00:47I think that there is a pathway forward that we can see.
00:51But, again, the leadership will have to figure out, you know, what the time frame of this is.
00:55As you know, I've come and I've spoken to several of you in the past few days
00:58and said, I'm not sure this can be done this week.
01:00I'm pretty confident it can be done in 10 days.
01:03But that's up to leadership to decide.
01:06We just want to emphasize we want to deliver the President's agenda.
01:09The bottom line is, he said, end waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid,
01:13which is a hugely popular issue with the American people.
01:16And he said, end the Green New Scam, which is hugely popular with the American people
01:21who are watching their energy bills go up as our deficit goes up.
01:26And they wonder how in a world where we have all the energy resources we have, gas, oil, you know,
01:31how in the world are our energy bills going up?
01:34We're going to try to help solve that for the American family.
01:37So, anyway, so with that, if any of my colleagues want to make a statement.
01:41So, the legislation that we've got right now.