you ll find out the things you disagree upon are not insurmountable and we can finally get to resolutions and get to yes. the first test is well, first test was electing a speaker and that proved to be quite difficult. but i m glad you can laugh about it now. the next one is rules package for anyone out there wonder what that means. it s a package that dictates how the congress, the house in particular is going to run for the next couple of years. and it s not clear whether or not even that will pass. what do you think? you know, a lot of people are coming into this and grumbling, well, the people who are negotiating got everything and kevin was giving away the store. but i think part of the process with a lot of other members in working with my group, the republican governance group and explaining along the way of what was taking place, and there s nothing in this package that really hurts us because, unfortunately and i ve seen it since my time here too much power
portend a very difficult year for speaker mccarthy. the debt ceiling thing could be really bad for the country, but the reality is that until either gerrymandering changes or until people in these hard, red districts change their minds about what they want, this is all functioning within the spectrum of how democracy is currently working in this country. it doesn t just impact, though, the electorate, which is interesting, but there s a moment we had to talk about when speaker mccarthy spoke about repealing 87,000 irs agents and funding for them, talking about the act. there was the idea of one of the concessions that was brought up and thinking about we don t yet know what the concessions are, what the scope of them have been, and what was the price to get the vote to go from a never kevin to here, present. when it comes to things like that, which is a very nuanced aspect that most of the electorate might not be aware of