Biden’s regulation rush
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Nope. It’s not just your imagination. The Biden administration has been on a roll to finalize several regulations — from changes at nursing homes and updates to Title IX to health care protections for transgender people. Kimberly explains what’s really behind the mad dash. Also, Kai is back with a reminder: Don’t sleep on the foreign exchange market, folks! And we’ll smile about the tales of two cats.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Biden administration strengthens health care protections for LGBTQ+ Americans” from The 19th News
- “Congressional Review Act Threat Looms Over Biden Administration Rulemakings” from Inside Privacy
- “A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World”from The New York Times
- “Japan Intervenes After Yen Slides Against the Dollar” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Nebraska’s “Capitol Cat” brings paw-sitivity to politics” from USA Today
- “Stowaway Cat Gets From Utah to California in Amazon Returns Package” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | All right now we can turn the microphones on and actually let people hear what we've been saying because you know |
| 0:05.9 | Yes because surely there was no recording of it later |
| 0:09.1 | Surely you know what I you know what I really fear is the blooper reel when eventually I leave this freaking place my |
| 0:17.1 | blooper reel is gonna be stunning anyway it's gonna be epic. |
| 0:21.5 | Hi everybody I'm Kyle Rizdahl. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:24.0 | Where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:27.0 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks for joining us on this Monday, April 29th. |
| 0:31.0 | And welcome back, Kai. |
| 0:32.0 | We missed you. Thank back. We missed you. |
| 0:33.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:34.0 | I missed you guys too. |
| 0:35.0 | I was in I don't know if you gave people the skinny. |
| 0:37.0 | I was up in Alaska doing some reporting up there. |
| 0:40.0 | I was in Point Barrow, the northern most place in the United States, where it was five degrees |
| 0:44.4 | and 30 knots of wind coming off the Arctic Ocean. |
| 0:46.5 | I literally walked on the Arctic Ocean because it was so frozen. |
| 0:49.7 | It was kind of wild. |
| 0:51.3 | It was kind of wild. |
| 0:52.2 | That's cool. That's a flex. It was kind of wild. That's cool. That's a flex. It was very cool. I will also point out though that Jake Cherry, our engineer who was up there, who stayed actually to go skiing, or snowboarding, ice is snowboarder. |
| 1:05.0 | We were outside on the top of an atmospheric observatory, |
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