u.s. has already spent. this isn't new money that we are talking about here. and democrats are saying this is the responsibility of everybody. this isn't just on us. republicans, though, are saying you guys are moving ahead with this $3.5 trillion bill and we don't want to be a part of that and therefore this is going to be on you. now, democrats are trying to sweeten the deal and having some preliminary conversations about whether or not to attach this debt ceiling increase to something like government funding or disaster relief, if you're a republican senator in louisiana or a republican senator in the state of texas, that's really hard to vote against. and i asked senator cornyn and senator cassidy yesterday about this and they were a little vague because, you know, it's problematic. if you go back home and say i voted against hurricane relief. so there's some strategy up here on capitol hill. the democrats are still working through, but look, when mcconnell goes to the mics day after day and says republicans aren't going to help on this, usually have to take him at his word. we'll see where he stands in a