Senator Brian Schatz

Coffee up 20%.

Lots of things are getting more expensive, but other than housing, health care is usually, you know, the biggest expense.

And so driving the cost of one of your most essential things up is super unpopular.

And so I think they want out of this as well.

Yeah.

I mean, look, I think Trump has a pretty coherent economic philosophy, which is to create shortages and then bail out his friends.

And that's what the tariffs are about.

That's what the cuts to food assistance are about.

That's what the cuts of Medicaid are about.

That's what the elimination of solar projects is about.

He likes it if there's less of everything, because then everybody has to go and petition the monarch for mercy.

I think, look, I think on the rescission side, it's really vital.

If we're going to enact a bill, it has to stick.

And we have to have some confidence that it's not going to be clawed back.

Now, one of the things I've said to my Republican colleagues is, look, if we're going to enact appropriations bills, can you at least, senators, House members I have no hope for, but senators, can you at least say to the extent that we've enacted this on a bipartisan basis, we're not going to come back three weeks later and like cut it

on a partisan basis.

And I think there's some movement on that question.

And I think that would be an enormously positive outcome here.

I just think there are enough people who hate this.

And I think the assumption that they made about Russ Vought, I mean, they're saying they're cutting Democratic priorities, right?