democratic party. they've pushed their leadership to say we want something to shut down the government. meaning they look back and say the largest tax cut in history, repealed individual mandate. they look at the regulatory rollback. they look what's happen with $7 trillion added to the stock markets and see more circuit court judges ever confirmed in one year, new supreme court justice confirmed. those are things we look as tremendous progress. but they're captive by a small base in their party and they're saying we demand a shutdown. i do think they're related. they look at the accomplishments and all that this administration has accomplished and their reaction is because we can't beat them, we're going to shut down the government. >> director mulvaney, for the benefit of the public, can you go over -- i have another substantive question on the politics. but on entitlement payments, social security, medicare, can you, for the public, let them know what will happen regardless how long this lasts, what happens and what are the implications? >> the technical answer is if