Congressional Chaos, Missing SecDef and the Border Deal No One Likes (with Katy Stech Ferek and Bill Scher)
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Justin catches up with congress before leaving for the campaign trial.
Wall Street Journal reporter Katy Stech-Ferek discusses the challenges Congress is facing in funding the government and passing the 12 individual bills. She highlights the issues with the unpassed House bills and the hesitation among House Republican moderates. Stech-Ferek also discusses the potential for a speaker fight and the slim majority in the House. She touches on the impeachment proceedings against President Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas. Additionally, she explores the impact of the upcoming election year on House races and the difficulty of negotiating immigration reform.
Bill Scher of Washington Monthly joins to discuss the unfolding events surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's hospitalization and the lack of communication within the White House. The focus then shifts to Biden's attempt to kick off the general election campaign and the framing of the 2024 campaign. The discussion moves on to media coverage of Trump and Biden's messaging, particularly regarding immigration. The conversation then delves into the debate over foreign aid and border security, exploring the challenges in reaching a deal. Finally, there is a discussion about the strategic concerns of running against Trump's border policies and the prospects of a deal on immigration.
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| 0:00.0 | On this edition of the program, we bring you Congress, Congress, Congress! |
| 0:07.4 | What is happening inside the House, inside the Senate, how they're interacting with |
| 0:11.3 | Joe Biden. |
| 0:12.4 | Not one but two guests, Bill, |
| 0:13.9 | Share, and Katie Stetch Ferrick. |
| 0:16.0 | Washington Monthly in the Wall Street Journal, respectively. It's all coming up. |
| 0:19.8 | This is made possible by Oh them Bones, Daily Tech politics, politics politics politics program for |
| 0:57.0 | January 10th, 20, 24. Your old pal, Justin Rapper Young joining you in Austin, Texas for now. |
| 1:08.0 | In fact, by the time that you are listening to this, I may well already be in the Hawkeyes State, Iowa for our |
| 1:16.3 | first in the nation caucus and on Friday show you will get the beginnings of me on the trail there and a great interview about |
| 1:27.6 | how this race the all-important Iowa Caucus has come together. |
| 1:33.3 | However, before we head out onto the electoral battlefield, |
| 1:39.2 | we need to understand what is happening in our current government. |
| 1:43.8 | And so we have a jam-packed episode for you. |
| 1:48.1 | Featuring not only one interview with our friend, Bill Share of Washington Monthly. |
| 1:55.4 | We're going to talk a lot about some of the negotiations between the White House |
| 1:59.6 | and Congress, as well as some unforced errors by the Biden campaign and their media |
| 2:06.0 | strategy for 2024 but we're also going to have a debut on this show. |
| 2:13.8 | Somebody whose work I've referred to a few times |
| 2:16.5 | in not only this program, but some of my others, |
| 2:19.8 | a good friend and an even better reporter. |
| 2:23.2 | Katie Stetch Ferrick of the Wall Street Journal. |
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