a rube goldberg machine or device. so a rube goldberg machine is this complicated apparatus that performs many steps. the more steps, the better. and all of them totally unnecessary, because in the end, all of the rube goldberg machine does is do a simple task like it cracks an egg or closes the door or something like that. i'm not sure what industries you folks work in. i'm in the financial services industry, so i'm allowed to say this. this is basically the way the financial industry today where, you know i mean, in every part. right. so even the stuff that everyone's used before, you go to starbucks and you tap your card, the card reader, and you think, wow, look, that the money is moving digitally from my wallets to that device. but it's not it's going through your bank. the bank credit card process and company foreign exchange. in my case know, risk check. and in the end doesn't settle instantly. it takes days sometimes weeks, and it costs 1 to 10%. if you think about trading. right. so anyone use like robinhood o

this didn't require a monstrosity of a rube goldberg immigration bill. all we asked for was some enforcement mechanism tied to ukraine funding to leverage that funding to force president biden, who wants an open border, who caused problem, to use the executive authority he already has to secure the border. and by the way, recognize how much easier it is for a democrat president to secure the border versus a republican. president trump, again, faced strong resistance from the open border crowd, and no help from democrats here in this chamber to override court decisions, for example. president biden, i don't know, he may face similar resistance, but he would have republicans who are more than willing to pass a quick little law by unanimous consent to override a wrongful court decision, like the flores reinterpretation. it may not be widely known, but president obama's secretary of dhs, jeh johnson, completely disagreed with that court decision. complete digs agreed -- disagreed with it, wrongfully decided. president obama should have come to congress and a