Congress: An Unnatural Disaster

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

OA 1076: In the wake of the devastation left by hurricanes Helene and Milton, we examine the state of FEMA’s Congressional funding. Has disaster relief actually become a “partisan” issue, or is this really just a Republican thing? How are these funds distributed, and why can’t Congress ever seem to fully fund anything? Matt explains why the current state of Congressional appropriations has him looking for flights to Denmark. Then: Why is Ron DeSantis’s Department of Health threatening to bring criminal charges against local TV stations airing pro-choice ads in support of Florida’s proposed Amendment 4?

Finally, we drop a footnote to check in on the current state of the longest-running criminal trial in Georgia history and listen in on what the judge most recently assigned to the Young Thug RICO case has had to say to Fani Willis’s office about how they are handling it.

“Disaster Relief Fund State of Play: In Brief,” Congressional Research Service (8/14/2024)
“The Congressional Appropriations Process: An Introduction,” Congressional Research Service (11/30/2016)
Letter sent by Florida Department of Health General Counsel John Wilson to WFLA-TV dated 10/3/2024

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0:00.0	So just a yes or no you still do not have a plan? I have concepts of a plan. That is a damning non-answer. I'm not trying to...
0:15.0	That is a damning non-answer.
0:20.0	I'm not trying to make it about myself, your honor.
0:27.1	I'm just trying to show his bias toward the defendant.
0:30.5	Just don't make it about yourself. Something simple as a crack pipe, a use crack pipe.
0:37.0	The rules were that you got to
0:41.0	going to fact check. Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:46.0	This is episode 1, 0,076.
0:48.0	I'm here, Thomas Smith.
0:50.0	That over there is lawyer, Matt Cameron, and you heard a new intro that I haven't made yet because
0:55.4	we're recording this a little early but I bet it was spectacular.
0:59.2	Matt what did you do that new intro? I'm sure it was fantastic as always don't even need to hear it.
1:05.4	Always fun to change up those quotes.
1:07.8	Matt, how you doing today? I've spent the last day or two reading about how Congress passes the budget or doesn't.
1:14.1	So I'm pretty annoyed.
1:15.8	I'm in an unusual state of annoyance.
1:17.6	Yeah, how many pages can they even write about a thing that doesn't happen? There's so many. The different ways it doesn't happen. There's so many.
1:23.0	There are.
1:24.0	There are actually.
1:26.0	I answer my own question.
1:27.0	There are a bunch of different weird reasons and methods for it not happening, right?
1:31.0	Yeah, there's just a whole lot of twine and gum mostly but they
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