Congress kicks the default deadline can down to December.

McConnell promises no help next time.

Trump says ignore the subpoenas, and Biden's numbers continue to fall.

Democratic control is running out of time on the political junkie.

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I'd like to you, and think to me, I don't care how you quoted.

Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy, and we'll come out on top.

Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, because they're the ones to lead the USA.

Thanks for joining us and welcome to episode 375 of the political junkie.

I'm Ken Rudin.

If the Democrats control the Senate, as the number is seem to suggest, then why is it so difficult

for them to get things accomplished? Of course, I'm not as naive as that question sounds.

It's a 50-50 Senate with Vice President Harris there to cast a tie-breaking vote, so it's a bit

of a stretch to say the Democrats control the upper chamber,

but it is fair to say that they would have a better chance at passing key elements

of President Biden's agenda had they had a united party.

And that's clearly been difficult when you have two centrists,

Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kirsten Cinema of Arizona, holding or from signing on to big spending bills.

Manson's objections are easier to understand.

He comes from a solidly red state that was, after Wyoming, Donald Trump's strongest in the 2020 election.

Cinema is a different story.

First elected to the House in 2012 advocating progressive views,

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