elected the tea party began taking it easy. we re good to go. i think this will reenergize it i hope it reenergizes it because we have got to get our spending under control. we are $20.5 trillion in national debt. it s going to balloon up to 21.5 to 22 by the end of this next fiscal year this current fiscal year. it s unsustainable. we have to get those people involved. martha: how do you think this happened? there were some reports i read that indicated that president trump sort of sent the signal that it was okay to allow this to happen because he really wanted the military spending, which is a campaign promise that he made and was that the priority and you have to go back and deal with whatever cuts you might be able to deal with counsel th down the r. is that your understanding of how this worked. he sent the signal after the senate said we re not going to change our rules. we re going to still rely on the 60 vote rule. we still have to rely on democrats. and, this could be avo