Faiz Shakir
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Those would be very hard.
Those would be challenging.
Those are traditionally not what we do.
It's like, guess what?
New sheriff in town.
We're going to file some lawsuits and we're putting ourselves on the front edge.
Now, if you're going to come into government, you're going to own that.
We're going to do stuff here.
We're going to have to shake up the way in which corporate the corporate world is too stacked against the American public.
And that is understood.
So if you take that FTC approach.
authored, I think, by Lena, that Rohit Chopra at the CFPB was great and effective as well.
And you apply that across the board.
It's part of agriculture.
We need somebody who shakes that up.
We need Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services shakes that up and says, what are the powers to have more rural hospitals in America?
I'm not going to sit here and just navigate the bureaucracy and the rules as it were.
I have some purpose and mission to some real concrete goals, and I'm going to use the authorities to come in and do it.
That kind of thinking, I think, has been more associated with the progressive
wing because they believe in the sense of a mission and a purpose and disruption, to your point, that we're going to tap these latent authorities and have a concrete goal, not just, I think, good people, Becerra, Vilsack, all these kinds of folks who've lived in government for a long period of time.