This is horse trading. Concessions will be made. Look, I'll vote for this, but I need this to pass next week so that I can stay safe.
I need this to be appropriated immediately so I can stay safe. This is all going to be horse trading. Right now, the longer it waits, that means negotiations are being cut.
The only problem is even if all nine holdouts vote yay on the rule, that's a tie. That means it fails. So then they need to flip one of the four.
And here's the problem. And yes, it's a problem. OK.
Bart is not going to budge. She is such a fiscal hawk. It is absolutely admirable to see how consistent she is.
She's not going to budge. Self has budged in the past and is known to like, you know, put his head down and a little bit of theatre. Fitzpatrick is always given a like they have done this with Fitzpatrick for so many years.
Like it's fine. He needs to he needs to take the stand so he can get reelected because he sits in a deflux free seat in federal finance and he keeps winning tough election after tough election. So they automatically give him a pass.
I mean, you know how many times we would pass a bill that everybody voted on and McCarthy and then Johnson, everybody would allow Fitzpatrick to vote against the bill. And or and sometimes Don Bacon or they would alternate the two of them just because they needed the ability to say that back home so they can keep getting reelected. So forget Fitzpatrick.
Hold on. You're good. You're good.
George, is there a single Democrat for this thing at all? Look, this is still the this is a rule. You guys know that this is not the bill, that you're looking at on the screen. We know that this has to get passed before we go to debate.
Then I saw Speaker Johnson come on the House floor and grab Valadao from California and pull him in a corner. And now they're off the screen. So I'm texting with a member who says that Valadao and Mike Johnson are having a very deep, private conversation.
