Kevin Walling

And Marco Rubio is saying,

a very different thing in terms of working with the vice president, now president, and keeping the regime in place.

So again, I think you've got to couch it in a little bit of a delicate dance here where we can't be pigeonholed on being on the side of a known narco terrorist who tortured Americans in captivity.

in the country.

We saw it with Soleimani, other actions that the president has taken unilaterally where he paints, puts Democrats in a box.

Well, okay, so you weren't for taking out Soleimani, you know, the head of the IRA in terms of the industrial or the Revolutionary Guard in Iran, you know, same with Maduro.

So there's got to be some semblance of nuance here with Democrats and their response.

Yeah, I'm with Christian in terms of the role of health care.

Obviously, that's in the short term with the government shutdown looming at the end of this month.

I'm also looking at the state of the economy, right?

You had really strong GDP growth in quarter four, but pretty sluggish job growth.

So where does this all play out in advance?

And what does the economic picture look like in the summer heading into the fall?

I think retirements are key, as Christian mentioned, that we're going to see a number more

of them.

Obviously, we're also seeing a shrinking House majority for Republicans.

So it's a question as to whether Speaker Johnson maintains control over his caucus, 218, maybe 217, and heading south.

We've got some specials coming up in New Jersey, other places, Mikey Sherrill's

So those numbers are going to get even closer.

Is the rule by default in the House with discharge petitions going to be the case going forward?