Tyler Pager

I think that's unclear.

Some officials have posited to me that they could do it through the end of the month.

But given the sort of unique and nontraditional ways they've been doing it and the lack of transparency, we don't even precisely know exactly how the money is being found to pay them right now.

It's hard to exactly predict how much longer they're able to do this.

But it's not a forever solution.

And so should that run out, that could be a turning point as well.

Thanks so much, Michael.

Thanks, Michael.

Thanks.

It's good to see you, Michael. Welcome, Tyler, to The Daily.

It's good to see you, Michael. Welcome, Tyler, to The Daily.

Thanks so much for having me.

Thanks so much for having me.

Tyler, what was your reaction? Yeah, this is something that my colleague, Sean McCreesh, and I had actually been tracking a little bit because about a week ago, Biden was in a Philly area hospital. And we learned that that was because there was a small nodule found on his prostate. We had very few details beyond that.

Tyler, what was your reaction? Yeah, this is something that my colleague, Sean McCreesh, and I had actually been tracking a little bit because about a week ago, Biden was in a Philly area hospital. And we learned that that was because there was a small nodule found on his prostate. We had very few details beyond that.

But because of that, I had been following up almost every day with the Biden folks to get a better sense of exactly what the diagnosis might be from that discovery. But I don't think any of us expected it to be this severe in nature.

But because of that, I had been following up almost every day with the Biden folks to get a better sense of exactly what the diagnosis might be from that discovery. But I don't think any of us expected it to be this severe in nature.

When I saw this on Sunday afternoon, it felt like another piece of terrible news for Joe Biden. It's a very serious diagnosis. And I think there was an enormous outpouring of sympathy for him to be as sick as they say he is at this point in his life.

When I saw this on Sunday afternoon, it felt like another piece of terrible news for Joe Biden. It's a very serious diagnosis. And I think there was an enormous outpouring of sympathy for him to be as sick as they say he is at this point in his life.

At the same time, it's hard to divorce that from the weakened change that preceded it, which was just an unending string of bad news for the former president.