Bill Kristol

I'm fine with the restrictions, but the restrictions are really less important than the funding, I think.

So that's my only advice to the Democrats.

Fight the funding.

Yeah.

So maybe let the others pass it then.

But you know what?

The Republicans aren't going to agree to this anyway, in my opinion.

And Trump's not so to those stipulations they want if the Democrats hang tough on those.

So I don't know that they really need to decide between these two strategies.

They just need to say we're for all these things.

The Republicans at some point say we can't accept them.

The Democrats say, well, fine, then separate out the other stuff, fund the Coast Guard and FEMA.

And we're just not going to fund.

I mean, the good news is the,

The CR runs out on Friday, right?

So if there's no funding, there's no funding.

Then they'll draw down some of the funding that's already in there, unfortunately, from last year's five-year appropriation to fund stuff they want.

But at least there'll be less money sloshing around ICE and Border Patrol world.

The key, honestly, is to stay on offense.

And the key is not to sort of say, we're not going to really negotiate in public here.