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GINGRICH: "Well, look, I think it's pretty straightforward. If you look at where we were going, which was the Biden position of no amendments of any kind, no negotiations, just keep raising the debt ceiling, keep business as usual, and then you look where over 100 days, the House Republicans, who shocked the country by actually passing a bill that had real change, real reform, real cuts. The truth is, we are not nearly as well-off as we would like to be because we did not have a Republican president to negotiate with, but we are dramatically better off than we would have been if we just rolled over for Joe Biden. So the question I think for Republicans, and probably where Congressman Bishop and I have the deepest disagreement, is the consequence of a no vote. I believe, having done this, as you know, in my new book, 'March to the Majority,' where I explain how we spent four years negotiating with Bill Clinton, getting to the only four years of a balanced budget in your lifetime, we did it one step at a time. Well, this is the first step. Now, Republicans can decide it is a pretty reasonable first step, not everything they want, but it starts the game towards the balanced budget, towards appropriations this fall. Remember, what McCarthy did was establish a ceiling not a basement. So you can cut from the ceiling down further."