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The Playbook Podcast

December 20, 2018

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Government, Daily News, News, Politics

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The Senate passes a short-term funding bill, Republicans blast Trump’s Syria withdrawal and more in today’s Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Thursday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing sponsored by Stop the Hit.

0:07.0

And I'm Anna Palmer. Late last night, the Senate passed the short-term government funding bill by a unanimous voice vote just after 10 p.m.

0:16.0

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, we will still be in session tomorrow to see what the House does with what we just sent them.

0:23.7

House Republicans have not decided whether to pass this bill today.

0:27.3

They put off a decision last night.

0:29.1

They have a party meeting at 10 a.m.

0:31.4

But they had a rough night last night.

0:33.3

The Whip team surveyed House Republicans and found out that Southern lawmakers were peaved.

0:38.5

The short-term spending bill included no disaster money.

0:42.0

To be sure, the stopgap spending bill would likely still pass, being carried by mostly Democrats.

0:48.5

Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus are livid, and they took to the floor last night to wrap Republicans for not building the wall as

0:54.2

part of the spending plan. The topic took up the first 10 or so minutes on handy last night,

0:59.3

expect to see Freedom Caucus folks all day today on Fox tell the president he shouldn't fold.

1:05.1

Mark Meadows, who certainly has the president's ear, told a group of us reporters last night,

1:08.7

quote, the last time I checked, I don't think

1:10.9

our tactical advantage increases in February. It's Congress's fault the president didn't get the

1:15.5

wall on his desk and there's only one person who could fix it now and that's the president.

1:19.6

How could he fix it by vetoing this bill? And then what? We asked Meadows. Renegotiating.

1:25.2

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has remained completely silent. The White House

1:28.7

says they'd like to review the bill when they get it, but there isn't much to review.

1:32.7

It's a straight extension of government funding until February 8th. By the way, guess why Congress

1:38.9

set the stopgap spending bill to February 8th? It's expected to be right after the state of the

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