This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, December 18th. I'm Kate Trinko.

And I'm Daniel Davis. Education in America has radically changed just in the last 50

years and with it has changed the way students learn about our past. Today our

colleague and reporter Rachel Del Judas sits down with Rick Graber of the Bradley Foundation

who's working to reform higher education and K-12 education in America.

Plus it's almost Christmas and it's cold, unless you live in Florida or some places like that.

But is that song, baby, it's cold outside, acceptable in the year 2018? We'll discuss.

But first, we'll cover a few of the top headlines.

Well, with a government shut down looming, members of Congress remain at a standoff.

The reason, well, much of it boils down to the border wall.

President Trump drew a line in the sand last week in a public meeting with Democratic

leaders saying he would veto a funding bill that doesn't include funds for the border wall.

On Monday he tweeted, quote,

any time you hear a Democrat saying that you can have good border security without wall,

write them off as just another politician following the

party line." But the president faces another problem other than the

Democrats. Since the election, a number of lame duck Republicans who lost or are retiring haven't

been showing up for votes. That puts Republican leaders in a bind and creates

more uncertainty leading up to December 21st when the government is set to run out of funding.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York,

indicated the left isn't happy about a Friday court ruling from a district judge in the fifth circuit that found Obamacare is now

unconstitutional and doesn't intend to go with it. Okay well first Chuck it's an

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