Tom Cole: ‘Everybody Is Going to Walk Away with Some Wins’ in the Gov’t Funding Bill

‘We’ll go across the floor with bipartisan support’

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COLE: “Actually, I’m working on appropriations first. I would like to fund the government. And, you know, that’s a place where we had a big breakthrough. Actually, the first real Democratic, Republican and, frankly, presidential negotiation of the Trump era just took place and was successful. In other words, I think we will get out a pretty good bill, we’ll get it across the floor with bipartisan majority, and everybody frankly is going to walk away with some wins. It's a way good deal making actually happens. While we’re struggling with health care, we’ve got an example in the appropriations process of how to move forward in my view.”

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