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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this week's roundup, we look at the dueling visits to the U.S.-Mexico border taken by President Biden and former president Trump, the continued glacial pace of legislation in Congress, and controversial plans to make a fast food staple a little bit pricier.

This episode: White House correspondents Asma Khalid & Franco Ordoñez, and political correspondent Susan Davis.

Our producers are Jeongyoon Han, Casey Morell & Kelli Wessinger. Our editor is Erica Morrison. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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0:14.0	That's N-O-O-O-M-M-E-D.
0:18.0	Hi, this is Elise.
0:20.0	I'm currently sitting in my car after getting five cavities filled because my dental insurance
0:27.0	expires next week.
0:29.3	Big thanks to Dr. Schneider and Olivia for helping me up.
0:34.3	This podcast is recorded at 12.20 PM Eastern time
0:38.3	on Friday, March 1st of 2024.
0:41.6	Things may have changed by the time you hear it, and hopefully by then I'll be capable of more typical
0:48.2	speech.
0:49.2	Here's the show!
0:51.2	Okay. This joke. Okay, I'm really proud that she's taking care of those cavities, but I'm also like deeply
0:58.5	alarmed that we have to do these things based on when we have like dental insurance
1:01.8	or health insurance.
1:02.8	Racing to it or when you I don't know it's the same thing as like if you ever hit your
1:05.6	deductible and then you're like I got to get everything done before that deductible
1:09.5	comes back up.
1:10.5	Hey shout out to Dr Shiner and Olivia for fitting a lease in.
1:14.0	Well, hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
1:17.0	I'm Asma Khalid, I cover the White House.
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