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Debt Ceiling Standoff, Disney Sues DeSantis, Montana Bars Transgender Lawmaker

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The House voted to pass the debt ceiling bill on Wednesday, but it is not expected to pass the Senate and President Biden has threatened to veto it. Disney sued Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis alleging that he has overseen a "targeted campaign of government retaliation" against the company. Montana Republicans barred a transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from the House floor over her opposition to a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth.

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0:00.0

House Republicans pass a bill that would extend federal borrowing authority and adds a GOP

0:07.9

wishlist.

0:08.9

Senate Democrats say that's a nonstarter, so does President Biden, so how does the country

0:13.0

pay its bills?

0:14.0

I'm Steve Inskief with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News.

0:21.2

What is Disney's legal case against the governor of Florida?

0:24.8

Ron DeSantis is asserting the states right to rule the Magic Kingdom and the rest of

0:28.9

Disney World.

0:29.9

The company says he's using his power to silence it so Disney file the lawsuit.

0:34.5

And Montana Republican silence a transgender lawmaker after protests over a gender-affirming

0:39.4

medical care bill.

0:40.8

We have seen bills targeting our art forms, our books, our history, and our health care.

0:48.1

Stay with us we'll give you the news you need to start your day.

0:59.9

Republican Republicans finally made an opening bid in the fight over paying federal

1:06.7

bills.

1:07.7

Leaders of the House have said they will not pay those bills unless they get something

1:12.0

in return and up to last night they had not agreed on what they wanted.

1:16.3

Now a bear majority does.

1:18.2

Speaker Kevin McCarthy got through a bill that extends federal borrowing for less than a

1:22.9

year but also demands that President Biden cancel much of his agenda.

1:27.6

He's underestimated us but you know the one place that they haven't underestimate the

1:31.4

American public.

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