Congressional Funding Deal, Israel and Lebanon, Lloyd Austin Fallout
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Congressional leaders agreed on the numbers for overall federal spending. |
| 0:07.0 | House Speaker Mike Johnson agreed to a deal, but with the same numbers as his predecessor who was deposed can lawmakers agree on the details. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Steve Insky with Michelle Martin and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:18.1 | We have a glimpse today of life in far northern Israel. In a finger of land alongside Lebanon |
| 0:27.2 | most civilians have evacuated. Israeli troops trade fire with Hezbollah and everyone prepares in case of an escalation. |
| 0:35.4 | And everybody has the call out six sometime so why didn't defense Secretary Lloyd Austin tell |
| 0:40.0 | the White House in a timely manner that he'd been hospitalized. |
| 0:43.2 | He's now facing tough questions from lawmakers. |
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