the government now, for every dollar it spends, barrault's $0.35. this is -- borrows $0.35. the solution is for congress to give the president, the administration, the authority to move money between accounts, two since on the dollar. it is not armageddon. some republicans will not. the overwhelming majority of republicans are prepared to say to the president, $0.02 on the dollar, you decide how to do it rationally. >> this would be the congress that bolted for home on thursday, after what? a three or four day work week. >> after rejecting a bill that would have dealt with it. >> unfortunately, a majority vote does not count any more in the senate. there is the solution right there. >> republicans, in truth, are not agreed on charles's approach. if they were and could come up with a bill in which the president did have discretion, it would be a very unusual allocation of executive power, but he probably should take it if that were the case. >> he said he would refuse. he said he would issue a veto. >> i do not know what is actually in the bill, whether it actually gives him