A hot mess in Washington
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USA TODAY
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, February 12th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.0 | excerpt. |
| 0:22.0 | Today a |
| 0:24.1 | look at the latest hot mess in Washington. |
| 0:26.2 | Plus Trump threatens NATO and a football dynasty may be brewing in Kansas City. |
| 0:36.2 | It's a messy time in Washington. From the White House to the Supreme Court to Congress, it feels like an apt moment to check in with USA |
| 0:40.3 | today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, Susan, thanks for hopping on the excerpt today. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, Taylor, it's great to join you again. |
| 0:47.0 | Susan, you wrote about this hot mess that's brewing in Washington right now. |
| 0:52.0 | I like that choice of words. There are a lot of |
| 0:54.8 | angles to this. Let's start with Capitol Hill where there are all kinds of |
| 0:58.3 | legislative fights popping up and you know House Speaker Mike Johnson in |
| 1:01.8 | particular has had a rough few weeks. |
| 1:04.8 | Susan, what's the latest here? |
| 1:06.4 | Well, he's lost back-to-back votes on big issues because of defections from his own members. This isn't because of |
| 1:14.4 | Democratic opposition is because he's not holding his own team together. |
| 1:18.3 | That raises questions about what he's going to be able to get through if anything this year |
| 1:22.3 | whether he'll be able to get through if anything this year, whether he'll be able to |
| 1:23.9 | survive his speaker, all of the best thing he has gone for him there is that there's not really |
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