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LEWIS: "Well, look, if they want to live down to the Republican example, they could do that. But Joe Biden ran to be different, right, and to transcend politics. Biden, in my opinion, had really two mandates. One is to repair the social fabric. In other words, don’t be Donald Trump. And part of that was this promise that he was going to work across the aisle. Now, the other thing I think he certainly had a mandate on was Covid, right? So we have these two things that are potentially now in conflict. I just think this early on, I mean here we are not even a month into this administration, and healing our divisions was a central theme of his campaign promise. And you have ten Republicans who are coming forward, willing to spend — by the way, they just had a bipartisan bill like a month ago that spent $900 billion on Covid — willing to spend another $600 billion. And if Joe Biden rebuffs that this early, I do think it sends a tone. And I’m not saying there wouldn't be any bipartisan support in the future, but I certainly think it would make things difficult."