John Thune

Those are all things that on the business side—

I think it's going to lead to growth in the economy and better paying jobs.

So I think that people are going to see a better future as a result of the economic pieces of it.

And then there's a whole bunch of other things that I would kind of put in there together.

I mentioned some of them having to do with just policies that we think are consistent with a conservative view of how this country ought to be run.

I mean, given...

You know, the school choice policies have been something that's been a part of our agenda for a long time.

You look at these newborn accounts and what a difference that will make in the lives of families and young people who are being born today to be able to put money aside for their futures.

Those are all incentives in this bill that I think are just going to lead to a better quality of life for a lot of the American people.

I think first and foremost, and we did do some of this in the one big beautiful bill, but rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse.

We did that in the Medicaid program.

We put work requirements in, and then states had figured out how to game the program, and so we clamped down on some of that, and we achieved a significant amount of savings there.

And then we put in this rural hospital transformation fund, which

For if you've got representative rural hospitals like I do, I think the states are going to take full advantage of that in trying to ensure that we've got health care that's accessible to people all across the country, including in rural areas.

But I think to your point, the Democrats' view of this is to extend Obamacare and particularly pieces of Obamacare that are rife with waste, fraud, and abuse.

And our approach on that has always been

You know, let's instead of enriching the insurance companies and the way this thing is structured, particularly these enhanced Biden subsidies, structured in a way that incentivizes insurance companies to auto-enroll people.

So you got a lot of people out there who don't even know they're covered, don't know they have insurance because they're not paying anything.

They got $0 premiums.

They're auto-enrolled by the insurance company, which is getting the payment directly from the government.