First Rule of Republican Fight Club

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It's apparently Fight Club week on Capitol Hill. GOP Representatives are bidding farewell to decorum and possibly their own sanity as multiple almost-fights break out in Congress. Meanwhile, MAGA Mike Johnson gets his government funding bill passed in both the House and the Senate without any major cuts to spending or fulfilling any of his far-right fantasies. George Santos is no longer running for reelection as a House Ethics Committee investigation finds he spent campaign funds on Botox, Sephora runs and… Only Fans. Plus, Biden is getting advice from progressives about how to campaign on the economy and the New York Times says Trump may be more resilient than other Republicans when it comes to messaging on abortion. Finally, John Della Volpe, pollster and author of "Fight: How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America," joins to talk about the President's struggle with younger voters.

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Pott Save America, I'm John Favreau. I'm Dan Fifer.
0:22.6	On today's show, Republicans in Congress are picking literal fights with each other.
0:27.1	Joe Biden gets advice from progressives on how to talk about the economy.
0:30.1	The New York Times thinks Donald Trump is less vulnerable than other Republicans
0:33.6	on the issue of abortion and Biden pollster John Dela Volpe joins to talk about the
0:38.0	president's challenge with younger voters. But first, Magam Mike Johnson, looking more like Rhino Mike Johnson, now that he passed a bill
0:47.8	to keep the government open that doesn't cut a single cent of spending or include any of his weird right-wing policy kinks.
0:55.4	It's probably why the bill passed with mostly Democratic votes and 95 Republicans
1:00.5	voting against it. The Senate also passed the bill and now it's off to
1:03.7	Joe Biden for his signature. The bad news and all of this is that for some reason
1:08.0	the bill only funds half the government until January 19th and the other half until February 2nd so we get to relive this
1:16.0	shit show after the holidays there's also no plan to pass funding for Ukraine
1:19.7	Israel humanitarian aid for Gaza or help for Americans dealing with natural disasters.
1:25.1	So no welcoming Mike Johnson's to the resistance just yet, but Dan, how was he able to pass a temporary funding bill with mostly Democratic votes and so many Republicans opposed?
1:37.5	Isn't that the exact thing that cost Kevin McCarthy his job?
1:40.5	It is, John. Is the exact thing that caused Kevin McCarthy his job. So I think there are a couple
1:45.5	things here. One, I think every new Republican speaker gets one Mulligan and this is his, right? So you're going to let him get away with it.
1:52.2	Two, McCarthy lied repeatedly to the
1:55.2	caucus saying no C. R's no C. R's no temporary bills no clean C. R's Johnson and I say
2:00.5	this quite lightly to his very very minimal credit did tell Republicans
2:06.0	before during his nominating speech to be speaker that this was the plan that he
2:10.5	wanted to do a short-term extension so they could pass all of the
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