Rep. Don Beyer

Stand up for America.

Stand up for health care for every American.

So they're really brutalized by it.

The food bank, our largest food bank in Arlington, Arlington Food Assistance, whatever they're

their number of people they're serving is the largest ever, 50% higher than COVID, which had been the largest ever.

So people are really hurting, but they're also willing to stand up because they love their country.

You know, I go back to the Abraham Lincoln who said, you know, public sentiment drives everything.

That's a paraphrase.

He's more eloquent.

And so let's see how public sentiment evolves over the shutdown.

So far, the public is very much on the side of avoiding the 100%, 200%, 300% increases in Affordable Care Act premiums.

They're against the 20 million people whose health insurance is being stripped away through the big ugly bill.

As long as that happens and Donald Trump's numbers continue to go down, eventually the Republicans are going to realize that they just need to do the right thing.

And Ben, the amazing part is they're going to get creamed in the 2026 elections unless they fix health care.

I mean, it affects their people way more than it affects our voters.

And so the chance for us to pick up 40 or 50 Republican seats is out there if they don't fix it.

And that's not what they want.

So we're offering a win-win situation.

They just have shut their ears to it.

Yeah.