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Their role, to take their responsibilities as a separate coequal branch of government and pass these bills they've supported. now mitch mcconnell can can keep saying the president doesn't support it, but my goodness, i think a lot of our republican senators are going to feel the heat at home. we've got four, five republican senators who publicly said they agree we got to reopen the government first. we'll keep asking for indianapolis consent to bring up those bills. we said it yesterday. mcconnell shut it down, but that's going to get harder and harder as these stories pour in from around the ...

We do know talks between the leadership and the white house completely collapsed. that will be evident in the next hour when chuck schumer, the senate minority leader, goes to the floor of the senate to demand passage of house-passed bills to keep individual agencies open. yesterday house democrats pushed through with the support of just eight republicans in the house, a measure to re-open the treasury department and the irs. that's among the things that chuck schumer will demand a vote on in the senate. that's not going anywhere. senate republican leaders plan to block it from going forward b...

Any interest, at least from my perspective, in doing so. so not only do you have mull vab any y -- mulvaney, you have forces like rush limbaugh, fox news, significant polling indicates that 87% of republican voters stand with the president. 64% strongly stand with him. when you look at all those variables, there is no reason whatsoever for donald trump not to continue to do this. now we can say a vast majority of the country doesn't support it, but when has donald trump ever listened to a vast majority of the country since he's been president. >> you nailed it. he listens to radio talkers. you...

Chapter on infrastructure. we talk about what a 21st century financing mechanism might look like for infrastructure and talk about the challenges for the current organization that are presented by innovation. you could imagine, for example, the thought experiment. suppose everybody in all of society has an electric car, how is the gas tax going to pay to fix the potholes? as we approach the 21st century, the president has a very ambitious infrastructure agenda. he's basically instructed everyone to think creatively how to finance that. all of the possible tools are on the table. as for why we ...

I have a few minutes for questions. also anyone who wants to can reach out and come to the cea office and ask me questions there. i'll start with you at the back. >> thank you. two questions for you. one, on the dollar and the stock market. we've seen a tremendous amount of votel over the past month. i'm wondering if you think that that volatility has any impact on the real economy i don't understand wall street. >> volatility is to be expected. it tends to go up when the market goes up in response to our policies. it's not unusual. >> can i follow up on the dollar? >> secretary steve mnuchin ...