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District judge ruled they were illegal because congress didn't appropriate them. you're on the appropriations committee. how can you justify these subsidies that your committee -- that doesn't didn't ever approve? >> well, the original legislation essentially directed funding for these payments, in order to provide stability in the exchanges. if my republican colleagues want to join together and vote for the appropriations process to provide those payments on an annual basis, that would be fine. even better would be if congress got together on a bipartisan basis that passed legislation that ma...