Debt Ceiling Standoff, Disney Sues DeSantis, Montana Bars Transgender Lawmaker
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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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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