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The theme of this morning has been this congressional fight, perhaps looming between the House and the Senate and then the House Republicans and then some Senate.

There's a lot of nuance to it.

Trump has been trying to hurt all the cats in advance.

We talked about the House Republicans being called to the White House last week,

trying to get them all on the same page on this CR, continuing resolution.

It appears, again, when you hear people like Chip Roy say, I'm in, when you hear others in the Freedom Caucus say, we're in.

We don't like it.

We don't even support CRs, but we'll support this one because we trust Trump.

This has to get done for all the reasons that I've laid out today.

Ed Morrissey is back with us.

He's written a similar piece.

That's why we thought we would check in with our great friend who wrote past the

CR and prepare for the real fight. Ed Morrissey Managing Editor at Hot Air. Edward, good morning.

Welcome back. Good morning, sir. Thanks for having me. So this is important because, in my view,

as I just posted on X, if you give Democrats this, this is the

thing they've needed. They haven't had anything. They've been flailing and floundering with nothing.

This would be their first real talking point if Republicans hand it to them.

Well, that's one reason, right? I mean, first off, you have to keep government going because now you're in charge of all three branches.

Before it was a dispute, well, three branches, two branches, the two chambers and one and the other branch.

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