sarah flouners, where is joe biten all of this? well, he's been kind of out to lunch for. long time, um, where is he, his party maneuver, part of this whole theater, uh, and i have no idea what to say, because clearly he can't resolve it, this is push pool that goes on between the house of representatives, the senate, one has one bill, one has another bill, uh, obviously he could with executive authority keep any of these things still functioning, but of course he won't do that, he would rather put it on congress to thrash with each other uh than to in any way try to solve it, and that has also been the role of past presidents, they act like their hands are tied, and uh, of course, they they could pursue, they could push through any of these programs if they so chose, but they don't choose to do that. daniel, the us president be more present. during such a critical impass? ideally yes, but we don't really have a president in the normal sense of the term. uh, there was another poll conducted by cnn a couple of months back where they