enforcement land. this is starting the process, this is not something that s going to cost $100 billion or at least i wouldn t support that much. leland: you re running for governor down in florida and when you re governor you actually have to balance your budget and actually have to have fiscal responsibility. do you worry that as republicans keep talking about this i ve yet to find a spending project that republicans are really against. you voted for the omnibus bill, you ve got yeah, we ll spend more money on the wall, more money on that. republicans did, i didn t vote for the omnibus but you re right many republicans did and i think that the whole omnibus thing, i think, was handled very poorly. i think you re right and i think it blurred the differences between republicans and democrat s. are you somebody that really wants to spend lessor are you somebody that wants to spend more on everything and that omnibus spend more on everything so i do think that it was a mistake and i th
obamacare when president obama showed up was one piece of paper with eight talking points. it was basically written in a legislative process. so, i think we re seeing that again, but you re absolutely right, you re not going to be able to avoid making tough decisions. republican parties going to want to put out a plan that the president will enthusiastically support, and help us work through congress. you ve been around this town a long time, both as a strategist and then as an elected official. it looks to me as if at least on the legislative side of things, this is a bit slower of a start. than you might expect when you have one party control. you know, there hasn t been the big, you know, look, we re already passed the date of when president obama signed his big stimulus. so is there what do you make of in the big sort of where we are sequencing wise examine. well, i don t actually consider the stimulus all that big a deal. they add ud up every spending project they could th
gets after the shenanigans played at the last minute when writing appropriation bills tucking a spending provision in there that nobody ever sees. this goes after those games, which both parties have been a party to. we banned earmarks, but that doesn t get at the heart of this issue, and we think this is a step in the right direction. what it does, andrea is makes it much harder for a member of congress to sort of quietly slip on a spending project that may not be in the national interests. right. and sneak it on by sticking it with everything else that is legitimate spending. it s kind of the christmas tree approach, where a lot of people may want to add their ornament. this says we re going to take an opportunity to have an up or down vote on the things that may not be necessary. now that i ve got you both there, more or less a captive audience, you ve agreed on the line-item proposal. how about the payroll tax?
about the democrats, there s a serious rift right notice within the republican party that s long-standing over whether you go for the donald trump expensive budget-busting populism, and you build a wall, and you do tax cuts and you never touch entitlement spending, and you go on to fund these roads and bridges and transportation projects, or you actually pay down the debt. so there s a real problem moving fiscal conservatives after this tax cut that was deficit funded on to another spending project. the next step is instead of a private/public patch, the principles the administration will release have moved toward a state-focused goal, where locals will have to pitch they have the money for the project, and then they will get a part of that $200 billion up. when you get to the democrats,