February 9, 2018
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
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🗓️ 9 February 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good Friday morning, I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing |
| 0:05.2 | sponsored by Goldman Sachs' 10,000 small businesses. |
| 0:08.7 | Here's the status of your government. |
| 0:10.6 | It's open. |
| 0:11.6 | The status among your elected officials is somewhat mixed. |
| 0:15.5 | Some, there's confusion and frustration. |
| 0:18.3 | But for many, they're actually quite happy with the outcome. The final |
| 0:22.2 | vote tally in the House was 240 to 186. The two-year, $300 billion budget passed the House and the |
| 0:29.7 | Senate and is now headed to the White House. The government is funded until March 23rd, and the debt ceiling |
| 0:35.8 | is lifted until 2019. |
| 0:38.9 | Ryan says the House will now move to work on a DACA solution. |
| 0:42.6 | Here's the breakdown. |
| 0:43.8 | 67 House Republicans voted against the bill. |
| 0:47.4 | This might seem like a lot, but this was a very pricey budget, and we're shocked. |
| 0:52.7 | More than 150 Republicans voted for it. It was a very late |
| 0:56.5 | night or early morning in the U.S. Capitol, where Republican Washington plunged into its |
| 1:01.6 | second government shutdown of Donald Trump's presidency. This time it was Senator Rand Paul of |
| 1:07.2 | Kentucky who dragged out a filibuster into the wee hours of morning because of what he |
| 1:11.8 | termed as excessive spending. The main difference between the House and the Senate is the Senate |
| 1:17.3 | vote was never truly in doubt. The House, meanwhile, gaveled into session at 321 a.m. with |
| 1:23.0 | senior aides and many members of Republican and Democratic leadership unsure whether they would be able to |
| 1:29.8 | pass the two-year budget deal. Pelosi entered the House floor shortly after 340 in the morning |
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