to let it pass in its curren form since they control th house. that is nothing new with the dynamic that we have, th political dynamic. but do democrats have the uppe hand here? how do you see this battle playing out over the comin weeks? i mean, what is tragic is that we will view this through a political lens because we ar in a political job, i suppose. but this budget is actually lot like it is building on the successes, i mean, if we wer not talking about this in partisan sense, we would b talking about the fact tha we ve seen record job growth we have seen for the first tim in, what, 30, 40 years finally some significant we jim felicia. for years, workers wages did not keep up with inflation, an now we are starting to close that gap we are creating jobs in this country faster than we are creating workers and we have a workplace shortage these are all good problems, these are problems that we started to fix in the last term,