Congress, White House Face Year-End Deadlines
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Kathleen calling from Philadelphia. I am working on a Death Star Penaata for my kids' birthday party this weekend. It's going to be super hard to crack open, but it'll have one tiny week spot on it. Oh my gosh. This podcast is being recorded at 109 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, December 18th, 2024. Things may have changed by the time you hear this. |
| 0:21.9 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:26.6 | Is this a Star Wars, Trek, Wars? |
| 0:29.3 | Not Trek, Wars. |
| 0:30.8 | And I will say, this is a level of dedication that is impressive. |
| 0:34.6 | The one time I had a Star Wars birthday party for my son, I got ponies and then put up a sign that said they were taun tons. |
| 0:42.1 | Nice. Kids could get a taunton ride. That's so much creativity. I, you know, props to anybody that makes some things that are buying it at the party store. |
| 0:50.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Deirdre Walsh. I cover Congress. And I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 1:04.1 | Today on the podcast, what Congress and the Biden administration want to get done before they leave office. |
| 1:08.4 | Deirdre, let's start on the hill where you spend a lot of time, especially right now. |
| 1:11.3 | Congress is trying to get a bill to fund the government. |
| 1:16.7 | What are some of the highlights? Well, like they do every year, they are leaving the must pass legislation until the last possible minute and very close to the holiday season. |
| 1:21.7 | The federal government, federal agencies are going to run out of money on Friday at midnight. |
| 1:26.7 | So Congress is doing what it does best. It's kicking the can down the road. They are going to run out of money on Friday at midnight. So Congress is doing what it does best. It's kicking |
| 1:29.2 | the can down the road. They are trying to pass a short-term funding bill that keeps agencies funded |
| 1:34.7 | at the current levels through March 14th. But this bill also has a lot of other stuff on it |
| 1:41.3 | that is not in a typical just stopgap funding bill. |
| 1:45.3 | The bill includes a pay raise for members of Congress. It includes roughly $100 billion in |
| 1:51.7 | federal disaster aid for states that are recovering from hurricanes Milton, Haleen, |
| 1:58.4 | wildfires in Maui, wildfires on the West Coast, money that the agency |
| 2:02.6 | desperately needs for recovery operations. It also includes a lot of unrelated policy issues, |
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