00:00I got two in this series, the first one still.
00:05No, give me one second, let me find out, because this is telling me how long I can talk to you.
00:11Don't watch. What the hell?
00:14Yeah, I'm just trying to pull up C-SPAN. How many votes I have left? Hang on a second.
00:20There's 129 people who have left to vote.
00:22Who have left to vote?
00:23Yeah, so you have 55 Republicans.
00:24Alright, I'll go quick.
00:25I'll go quick, alright.
00:26So, Musk says, shame on you for voting for this bill.
00:30What do you say now?
00:31Yeah, well look, I said yesterday, I said, as I said when I voted on the bill, I did so reluctantly.
00:36I have concerns that it doesn't go far enough, and everybody knows that.
00:39It's like, not really surprising.
00:42I would have gone much further with reductions.
00:44I would have done stuff with FMAP and provider taxes and things that I think are necessary.
00:49That being said, I don't think he's highlighting the significant reforms in the Inflation Production Act.
00:57I don't think he's highlighting the key reforms in Medicaid, almost a trillion.
01:01When you take it all in balance, those things are enormous wins and an enormous step forward.
01:06So, my posture remains the same, which is, look, I voted for it to move the ball down the field.
01:11I think there needs to be improvements.
01:12I said that at the time.
01:14The Senate's going to put their fingerprints on it.
01:17We'll see if they make it better or worse.
01:19I mean, he says you guys are going to leave the country with unsustainable debt because of this bill.
01:23Well, look, I think what he's not, I think, accounting for there is dynamic impact and looking at the entirety of the package.
01:32We were taking that all into account.
01:33I remind you, at the time, you know, you look at the total package.
01:36You look at the dynamic scoring over 10 years versus, say, the next three or four years.
01:39My point at the time, and remains, you still have significant deficits even on a dynamic impact over the first three or four years.
01:45And I don't think we should do that.
01:47And I didn't think so at the time.
01:48And I think the Senate ought to address that.
01:50So, what I'm saying is, I agree.
01:52It needs to improve.
01:54I've got priorities as well to go alongside that, which is getting reforms to Medicaid and getting significant reforms to the Green New Scam.
02:02So, you've got to weigh all of that and then decide how much we can get out of it.
02:06A lot of Republican senators are telling me, including Senator Lisa Murkowski and the like, they want to push back the Medicaid work requirements.
02:12They also, they think it's not workable.
02:14They also want to push back and phase out of the IRA tax credit.
02:16If it comes back...
02:17Yeah, it'll be dead.
02:18It'll be dead.
02:19Like, so, if the Senate wants to go that direction, then this bill isn't.
02:22I mean, it's not even close to passing.
02:24So, they need to go further or the bill's dead.
02:27And hell, even if it bounces back as it was, I'm not sure it passes the House again.
02:30So, you've got...
02:31They need to make the bill better if this thing's going to move forward.
