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The 25th state to end that extra $300 in federal weekly stipend for unemployment insurance and the 20th state to completely pull out of congressional expansion of unemployment benefits. is there evidence that either the stipend or the extra unemployment is actually a disincentive for some folks to return to work? >> well, you know, jake, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence and i hear from business poem, smaller businesses in particular, that this is a big deal. as an economist i look at the data, and it's hard for me to connect dots. sure, i'm -- i think there must be some impact, but i think ...

Is he having difficulty filling out those positions because many republican national security experts had come out during the campaign to speak out against him. we have also got ten a lot of pushback. what are you hearing? >> there are new faces vying for top positions who simply would have never been in contention before because of the way washington works. normally when there's a democratic administration in power, the top republicans go to industry or think tanks and they wait for their team to come back in office. the people who normally join in an administration have had prior experience ...