Democrats play chicken

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Moderates and progressives are threatening to vote down different parts of their own party’s agenda, all while a government shutdown looms. Vox’s Li Zhou explains why. Today’s show was produced by Will Reid with help from Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Haleema Shah. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Latin and Brazilian pop has had a tremendous year in 2022.
0:05.6	To celebrate, Switched On Pop, the podcast about the making and meaning of popular music
0:10.3	will be breaking down our favorite hits from the region.
0:13.0	We'll be talking live with Kelly Ujiz about her viral song, Telepatiya.
0:17.6	We'll be analyzing how bad bunnies are, but we can completely ubiquitous, and we're
0:21.8	looking at how Anita found a new international audience.
0:25.0	I'm Charlie Harding, the co-host of Switched On Pop.
0:28.2	Switched On Pop and listened to the sounds of Latin and Brazilian pop with us all December
0:32.6	along, brought to you by Total Biverism.
0:35.2	It's today explained, I'm Halima Shah, filling in for Sean Ramis-Furham.
0:48.3	Today we're talking to Lee Zoh, who covers Congress for Vox.
0:52.4	Lee, is it still infrastructure week?
0:54.5	We have actually moved from hot infrastructure summer to budget reconciliation fall.
1:01.9	Budget reconciliation fall sounds less sexy.
1:06.3	Yeah.
1:07.3	But really, what is happening in Congress right now?
1:12.1	So this week is huge for Congress and for Biden's agenda, and what's happening is Democrats
1:17.9	are finally trying to get through these two pieces of legislation that they've been
1:21.8	working on for months.
1:23.2	There is not an option.
1:25.4	There is too much at stake.
1:26.7	We need both of these bills.
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