Ted Cruz

And so we left at about 9 p.m.

from Pittsburgh.

Ordinarily, that's about a three-hour drive.

Yeah.

It was raining.

The weather was not good.

So it took us five hours to get from Pittsburgh back to D.C.,

I show up at our D.C.

apartment just after 2 a.m., and you and I sit down and did the podcast.

All right, that makes me feel a little better.

I drove further than you did for the same reason, because the airports, with all the chaos, it was just unreliable, and I didn't want to have to count on that to get back, so we decided to drive.

But I will say, as we were recording the podcast late Thursday night, early Friday morning, that's when the Senate passed the bill that funded all of TSA and funded all of DHS, but carved out ICE and carved out $6 billion from CBP.

And in fact, in the middle of the pod, I looked and said, oh, wow, OK, it just passed the Senate.

And the reason I did that is that you had John Thune, who went to the floor at like 2.30 in the morning and

and called for a voice vote, and there were only a half dozen senators on the floor.

That was an agreement both sides had reached to let it pass.

Well, we said at the time we weren't sure how things were going to play out, and Friday that illustrated to be the case, because the House came back, and House Republicans were pissed.

They were really, really angry.

Yeah, look, they were volcanically mad.

And part of it is House Republicans have not been dealing with Senate Democrats for the last 44 days.