If Republicans go into this and see it as an opportunity to show the American people in the midterms,

this is what we did with a very narrow majority.

And for intransigent Senate Republicans, what if you deliver a larger conservative majority?

Imagine what we can get done.

All right.

So critics are going to hear you say that, and they're going to freak out.

Oh, yes.

And welcome back to the Kevin Roberts show. Today we're going to talk about something that's going to sound super procedural and wonky and inside the beltway and, well, it is. But we're going to make

it accessible and actually make it make sense. And you're going to get fired up about

reconciliation, my friends. Now, even I didn't believe that, Dr. Roberts. Yeah, and you were counting on me to do it.

Last year, President Trump and Jason Smith, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee,

they came up with a big, beautiful bill, which basically was a reconciliation package,

but they tried to make it sound a little bit more appealing.

What exactly is reconciliation?

What is this thing that they talk about inside the beltway? Fancy word for adding to the budget. But the nice thing about

this particular fancy word, this procedure reconciliation, is that additional costs need to be

offset. So there actually is a plan, even though sometimes Congress fudges the numbers,

to that if there's additional spending, you have a plan for how you're going to pay for that.

Well, and the only way you can pay for something is either you cut spending elsewhere or raise taxes.

That doesn't sound very appealing. Yeah, but what you can do in this case for reconciliation

in order offset what will no doubt be additional spending for defense for the Department of War is to have some cost savings from fraud, waste, and abuse.

So while Congress will often, you know, play fast and loose with that desire, in this case, there's a real policy need to do it in addition to the economic date.

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