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Well, we got a deal done in the house.

That is the headline.

The question is, how was the deal done and how did it

turn out to be so different than what was originally going to happen? It is the art of the deal.

That's the best way I can describe it. And it was a deal that certainly was going to put us in a

better place than we were before because many conservatives were willing to stand up and fight hard.

The MAGA revolt, that's how it's being described in the press right now,

slash the original 1,547 page spending bill all the way down to just 118 pages.

This Friday and the House bill to avert a government shutdown was trimmed by 1,359 pages after conservatives said no.

We are not going to have this massive expansion of government

in a continuing resolution and we're not going to have the pork barrel spending in the

CR as well house speaker mike johnson's original measure was filled with pork there's no doubt

about it now he also had to work a deal because he had to deal with

Republicans and Democrats, and that's a very tough spot to be in. I want to be clear about that.

I'm going to explain more about why I say that in a moment. But the reduction in size underscores

what I would say is a failure by the pork barrel spenders in D.C. who wanted to pass a massive spending bill with Democrats support that few had even read before members were asked to vote on it, and that is a problem.

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