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What A Day

Congress, U Up?

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few months, you might have been wondering to yourself, “Hey! The president of the United States is running roughshod over the rights of millions of Americans! Where the heck is Congress?” From shirking its constitutional power to regulate tariffs to Republican in-fighting over President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ Congress has been a bit M.I.A. In fact, in his first 100 days back in office, Trump signed fewer bills into law than any new president going back to Eisenhower in the 1950s. So… what gives? Annie Grayer, a senior reporter covering Capitol Hill for CNN, gives us the low-down on what Congress has been up to. And in headlines: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of Asian migrants to Libya, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady because of tariff uncertainty, and India and Pakistan escalated their decades-long tensions over the disputed Kashmir region.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, May 8th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show that is taking a stand.

0:07.7

A stand against the use of the term raw dogging in contexts like this one, in which a CBS news guest

0:14.6

describes how Cardinals are spending their time during the papal conclave.

0:18.5

One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have

0:23.5

all the composting.

0:24.5

I believe the kids call it raw dogging it if you're going to go through a long period of time

0:28.3

with no electronic device.

0:30.4

Look, this is a family podcast.

0:33.6

So we are not getting into what the term raw dogging actually means.

0:38.9

But let me be clear, we are not using it to discuss whether or not Catholic cardinals can use their phones during the conclave.

0:49.0

On today's show, the Federal Reserve keeps interest rate steady over tariff uncertainty,

0:54.0

and India and Pakistan

0:55.2

escalate their decades-long tensions. Great. But let's start with everyone's favorite group

1:01.6

of normal, down-to-earth, hard-working Americans. Congress! Over the past few months,

1:08.6

you might have been thinking to yourself, hey, the president of the United

1:12.6

States is running roughshod over the rights of millions of Americans. The judiciary has been

1:17.6

acting to slow him down, ish. But isn't there this other branch of government that could be doing

1:23.4

something? One that's co-equal to the executive and judicial branches and arguably more powerful,

1:29.6

the legislative branch or something? First, shout out to whomever taught you civics. And second,

1:36.5

yeah, Congress could be doing a lot of things. Like, for example, stopping the Trump administration

1:42.1

from sending undocumented immigrants to a super prison in El Salvador.

1:46.1

Here's a constituent yelling at Republican Senator Chuck Grassley about this a few weeks ago.

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