"So, in the past, you have been critical a bit of the reconciliation process, which requires only 51 votes in the Senate, instead of the 60-vote threshold. You have said that you have criticized Democrats for passing legislation on entirely partisan lines and trying to ram a partisan spending bill down the throats of the American people. Not talking about the substance of the bills, but the process. How is this different?"
"Well, it's very different. If you go back to what the Democrats did with the inflation control act, which actually increased inflation, the American Rescue Plan, which was the Green New Deal on steroids, the biggest expansion of the federal government since LBJ that happened through the reconciliation process, Jake, I actually expect that there will be Democrats who will come on board to support these efforts to secure the border, to make the Trump tax cuts on working-class families permanent, which is what we're talking about in the reconciliation bill."
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