at this point. the vote last night to give themselves another week to finish should provide some breathing room, but as you pointed out, we re dealing with a bill that s about $1.7 trillion with a t and other than the top line numbers, very little information about it is public. very few sort of firm decisions made, the cliche you often hear in discussions about an omnibus package is no one individual element is final until everything is final. there are constant back and forth negotiations, particularly on the other policy pieces that go along side by side with the funding parts. the things i m looking closely at are things like the electoral count act provision meant to prevent another january 6th. that does appear likely to ride along with this bill. will there be extra money for ukraine and the war there? the answer appears to be yes, but how much? i couldn t tell you. this is a kind of decisions that are still being made over the course of this weekend as the bill gets written b
votes. clearly people like the message we were talking about which was kitchen table issues like making sure we had access to quality and affordable health care and great education and terrific jobs with dignity and equal pay for equal work were the messages i was elected on and bring that sensibility to congress. we care about national security and are concerned about making sure the borders are secure and we were able to be safe in the communities, but don t believe a wall is the solution to that. no, don t give an inch on the wall? i believe we have already given inches away in the sense that we are funding parts of border security, but it s also important that we are thinking about borders as more than that southern wall. there airways and roadways and waterways as well. it s important that we are a safe and secure nation and