Hi, this is Dave in Smyrna, Delaware. Right now, I'm adjusting the 1930s under Wood Typewriter I recently bought on Facebook Marketplace. This podcast was recorded at...

106 p.m. on Tuesday, March 18th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be tapping away at the novel that now I'm inspired to write. Okay, here's the show.

I have two typewriters.

That's a nice typewriter, too.

I got them fixed by a man who called himself the typewriter doctor.

You have two typewriters?

I do.

Why, two?

Because they're cool and different.

How's your novel coming along?

My novel, I struggle with the typewriter, I will say.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Barbara Sprint. I cover Congress.

And I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics.

Today on the show, while congressional Republicans are united behind the president and his policies,

the Democrats are fighting amongst

themselves about how to push back or even how to respond. Since the party's bruising loss in

November, Democrats have been very publicly grappling with how to move forward. And Barbara,

I want to remind listeners of some of the conflict that took place last week as Democrats were weighing whether to back a Republican effort to fund the government or to shut the government down.

There was ultimately a disconnect between House and Senate Democrats.

Yeah, I was at this retreat with House Democrats who were gathered in Leesburg, Virginia, not too far from here. And they were kind of charting the path of how to take back the House, you know, for next year. And there was this sense that like, we are now finally united. We can push back against this idea of like the Democrats are in disarray

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