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SLOTKIN: “I think they do. I think -- while I think inflation is obviously a worldwide phenomenon, I'm open to the fact that we have to make decisions here in the United States, Democrats are in power, we're in the White House, in the House, in the Senate, even if it's slim margins. So sure, I do think that there is rightful skepticism about particularly the last COVID package, and I think that's why you've seen a lot of us in Congress really shy away from another COVID package even when the White House was proposing one this past summer. So I own it, but I think it has to be reflected, you know, across the world, that it's going -- it's a post-Covid phenomenon that we're trying to deal with the best we can.”