Friday, November 19th, 2021

Morning Announcements

Betches

Daily News, News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We start with an update on what's holding up the Build Back Better bill in congress (looking at you Joe Manchin). Next, we hear about Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuting the death penalty sentence of Julius Jones. Plus, we get another update on the slow deliberations in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, which involves some controversy surrounding a journalist's coverage. Finally, a coalition of state attorneys general have launched an investigation into how Instagram draws in young users and affects their well-being. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: WaPo: House readies Thursday evening vote on $2 trillion spending plan backed by Biden NYT: Oklahoma Governor Commutes Inmate’s Death Sentence Hours Before Execution AP: Rittenhouse jury deliberates for third day without a verdict Axios: State AGs launch Instagram investigation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Friday, November 19th, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements presented
0:07.5	by Betches Media.
0:08.8	I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is sponsored by Amazon Music's new podcast, Country
0:13.3	Heat Weekly, hosted by Kelly Sutton and Amber Anderson, which is available now on Amazon
0:18.4	Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.0	You might have been wondering why we haven't heard much about the latest buildback better
0:26.2	build.
0:27.2	You know, the one where they may or may not decide to include the minimum four weeks of
0:30.6	paid leave?
0:31.6	That whole thing?
0:33.4	The reason we haven't heard much about the build is because Senator Joe Manchin insists
0:36.8	that the CBO, aka the nonpartisan congressional budget office, analyze the bill before he'll
0:42.3	support it.
0:43.3	Basically, he wants an economic analysis done to determine whether the bill will increase
0:47.3	the nation's deficit in the long term or not.
0:50.7	And the results are in.
0:52.2	Overall, the CBO estimated that enacting this legislation would result in a net increase
0:57.0	in the deficit totaling $367 billion over the 2022-2031 period.
1:03.4	However, this is without accounting for any additional revenue that may be generated
1:07.7	by additional funding for tax enforcement, because they also estimated that the funding
1:12.2	provided in the bill for that tax enforcement would decrease the deficit by $127 billion
1:18.2	through 2031.
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