made to the centrists. i will end with this, congressman peter defazio who is the transportation committee chairman in the house says that the speaker is aggressively working the phones, he says his phone rings at all hours of the night including late at night when he s working on his reconciliation package. he also said this could be speaker pelosi s toughest challenge, tougher than that task a decade ago when she had to get the affordable care act over the finish line. she is in legacy mode now trying to rewrite the safety net, the social contract for potentially generations to come. senator mccaskill, i will give you the last word. the goal was to finish all of this in the fall. could you imagine a scenario in which we are sitting around on christmas eve with one giant policy cliff of trying to finish this at the end of this year much delayed like the aca process was? yeah, it may happen. i mean, you know, this is devolved into one of these typical how long is it going to take,
fall. is this the sky is falling, the school is falling or is this a real deal? oh, this is an incredibly serious moment. it is so serious. were we to go off the policy cliff, they re going to sate s us letting it happen. none of us should let it happen. to kwens conses would be so severe it pushing us the put a debt deal in place. we have to fix the debt. we have to look at all the parts of the budget in order to put together that 4 or 5 or $6 trillion drrs deal and perhaps the fact that if we don t do that, we ooh going to harm ourselves so tre men duhly that s going to push members of congress, both sighs, the president and leadership to put out a plan. it s going to be filled with the