this point, but in some ways this is out of his hands because president trump has and his administration specifically have taken such a leadership role. i don t want to say that they are leading, but they have taken a leadership role on the republican side. if you re a republican senator, if you re a republican house member, in many ways you have to wait to see what president trump does in his discussions with chuck schumer before any of this gets resolved. so, stephen, let s bring you in. since gloria invoked now you have to agree with me. 100%. this has been many months in the making because the trump administration announced the end of the daca program, this was back in september. the federal funding for the children s health insurance program called c.h.i.p., ran out on september 30th. they have to pass three they had passed three short-term spending bills since then. they had months to figure this out. yeah. so why can t they just get the job done? well, because