Full Control: Republicans To Control Congress & White House
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, national political correspondent Sarah McCammon, and editor Ryland Barton.
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Pushkin. In the year 2000, the presidential race came down to a recount in Florida that ended up at the Supreme Court. To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco, Bush v. Gore, a podcast from the co-creators of Slow Burn, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:18.7 | Hi, this is Mandy Wynn on Misty Volcano in Peru, taking a break at base camp, 15,000 feet |
| 0:25.8 | above sea level. This podcast was recorded at 10.37 a.m. on Thursday, November 14th, 2024. |
| 0:33.6 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be on my five-month empty-nester |
| 0:39.0 | adventure around South America, Oceana, and Asia. |
| 0:43.8 | All right, here's the show. |
| 0:48.8 | Wow, that sounds amazing. |
| 0:50.3 | That sounds dreaming. |
| 0:51.2 | Say hi to our colleague, Asma Khalid, who is also in Peru right now. |
| 0:55.6 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Deepa Shiverom. I cover the White House. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics. And NPR's Rylan Barton is here. He covers many things, |
| 1:04.3 | state legislatures among them. Thanks for being here, Ryland. Hey, glad to be here. Okay, so we're going to do a big breakdown of all of Donald Trump's cabinet pick so far |
| 1:13.3 | and the role that people like Elon Musk will play in the federal government. |
| 1:17.4 | That's all coming in our roundup episode tomorrow. |
| 1:20.5 | We're holding off until we can get, you know, as full a picture as possible. |
| 1:23.6 | But today, we know that Republicans have won 218 House seats, giving President-elect Trump |
| 1:29.9 | full control of the federal government. Sarah, this is good news for his ability to push through |
| 1:35.4 | a lot of the priorities he campaigned on. What are some of those promises? Right. I mean, let's not |
| 1:39.8 | forget, conservatives dominate the Supreme Court. Trump is going to be the president, and now Republicans |
| 1:44.3 | will have control of Congress. So that is pretty much a clean sweep. And it does mean that Trump will |
| 1:49.5 | have a much easier time getting his agenda through. You know, it's not clear yet exactly what |
| 1:54.1 | his first priority will be. I think immigration is very high on that list. We all heard him talk |
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