together. reality is if there was an effort to undermine speaker mccarthy that would leave senator mcconnell as the only power broker amongst republicans in d.c. and, frankly, his record on spending is not very good. the senate was already clamoring to spend more. for those who had a hard time getting to yes on the debt limit, i wanted to vote know on the debt limit until we had a balanced budget attached to the debt limit. that s the rational position we should all be behind. but there aren t votes for that. what s the most conservative position that can become law and we got the largest cuts we ever had as a body and we got caps on spending. people said those aren t real. the senators when they were debating felt like they were real. go got work requirements, reforms to permitting for knepa and more. were there things that were left away? yeah. i think absolutely. but inherently in a compromise there were going to be conservatives that couldn t get