of the number. we don t talk about it in terms of the number. we talk about it in terms of the needs we need to meet for the people in terms of the child tax credit, in terms of making sure we bring health care costs down in terms of prescription drugs, making sure we make it more affordable. we ll continue to do what we did with the nair khan rescue plan, and that is to make sure we re meeting the needs of the american people. and then at the end of the day, we see what that adds up to here, and in this case we ll see how many of the needs we can build consensus around and meet. i m curious about that philosophically. there is a bit of a divide. i heard somebody refer to it as the appetizer strategy, meaning this. you try to do a lot of programs, and maybe if you can t fund them as fully as you wanted to, maybe there s a shorter term, you create clips, and see what sticks. another philosophy says do three or four programs really well. what is the philosophy of the president?