Jon Lovett

So they can only lose one more.

Murkowski has expressed skepticism.

She's a no.

There's no way she'll do that.

So then that's it.

Who just has a new poll ahead.

By the way, if Cornyn gets through this primary, we don't know when this vote will be, but before the vote, Cornyn's politics are fucked anyway, you slice it.

But I would assume if you're in the Senate, what you're saying is, we're not going to touch this unless the House passes it.

Because I do think it's really hard to figure out how you get this kind of a thing

through the House.

But doesn't reconciliation...

There are rules of reconciliation.

So you're going to have to find some fake way to pay for it.

Yeah, but look, then we're talking about parliamentarians again.

And you have Republicans in the Senate who are committed to that.

The politics of this are dog shit.

And Fetterman aside, got to assume you have not a single Democratic vote for this.

I hope that's the same in the House, but you don't know.

It's just that they couldn't make the politics of this worse.

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