welcome and david kat, former assistant us attorney, and steve, gil, former official in the us trade representative's office. definitely people who understand budget, both of you german, i am sure. and so i want to start with you david. do you think the budget being stalled right now? why there's so much complicated because it's been combined with a $4.00 trillion dollars infrastructure package as well. well, the infrastructure package, the so called safety net one, the one that does not have any republican support. that's the one that's been the heavy lift, you know, scotty, there's bipartisan support for a 1.2 trillion infrastructure package, which is things like of the electric grid, repairs and so forth. and what's happened is because the democrats are having this in fighting right now between the moderate wing, especially the 2 senators, who won't vote for anything like 3.5 trillion and the progressive wing. there's actually been a threat to not even past the 1.2 trillion, which would be a huge mistake because as i say, it has a lot of republican support and cities like wait her