A Debt Ceiling Stand-Off as Default Deadline Looms
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
John discusses the continuing talks between President Biden and Speaker McCarthy as they try to reach an agreement on how to raise the government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. He takes a call from Michael in Texas on the negotiations. Then he interviews comedian Lizz Winstead who is the founder of Abortion Action Front. Next he plays a clip of N.C Governor Roy Cooper on abortion. He also takes a call from Mark in Wisconsin on abortion and the bible. And finally Rhonda Hansome returns to talk about Tim Scott who has announced he is running for president. They take calls from Todd in Michigan, Paul in New Jersey, and Mitch at Kent State.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fugel-Sang Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Fugel-Sang Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm John Fugel-Sang. This is Serious XM Progress channel 127 |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to the little show that could this is tell me everything we are so glad to have you with us |
| 0:19.2 | We are so grateful to Dido Bedala and his team for being an incredible lead in. Hope you guys had a great weekend. |
| 0:24.8 | You were still making sense of everything. It's gonna be quite a long week, maybe quite a long week and a half |
| 0:32.4 | until we know what's going on. |
| 0:34.0 | All I can tell you for sure is, when we're old and dying and our lives are flashing before |
| 0:38.6 | our eyes, it's going to be such a drag to see all those times we were forced to care about the debt ceiling. |
| 0:44.8 | I don't like it any more than you do, but we got to make fun of it. |
| 0:47.6 | We're here to talk about it. |
| 0:48.7 | We're here to get your thoughts on it. |
| 0:50.5 | We're here to find out what's making you angry. What's making you inspired? Is there |
| 0:54.4 | any smart strategy going on here that is just being missed by the populace at large? |
| 0:59.2 | Is Joe Biden managing this brilliantly or is he just doing what so many Democrats have |
| 1:04.4 | done before and giving so many concessions when he didn't have to give any. |
| 1:09.2 | We want to know what you guys think. |
| 1:10.6 | 866 997 47 48 great show tonight Congresswoman Judy Chu |
| 1:15.6 | joins us Judy Chu is the first Chinese American woman ever elected to the |
| 1:20.8 | Congress and she's a terrific progressive Democrat. We're going to talk all about |
| 1:25.2 | what's going on with the dead ceiling and everything else that's going on inside the Congress. She is, of course, |
| 1:30.5 | one of the few members of Congress to also have a psychology degree. |
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