GOP Bets It All on the Border
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
With not one but two spending cliffs on the near horizon—not to mention wars abroad and a crisis at the border—can one of the all-time least productive Congresses get anything done this session?
Guest: Marianna Sotomayor, congressional reporter for The Washington Post
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| 1:11.0 | Well, it's pretty long. |
| 1:15.6 | Mariana said of my work covers Congress over at the Washington Post. Like, remarkably long, |
| 1:21.4 | like, like, put it in context for me. |
| 1:25.0 | So basically, now we know that this was the least productive Congress in a really long time. Congress only passed 29 bills that were signed into law by President Biden and that's pretty low because last time it was I think 70 that they were able to pass and that was the lowest number. |
| 1:44.0 | And this year they have to definitely address a couple of things right off the bat. |
| 1:51.0 | Here's a brief roundup of the stuff lawmakers need to get done in the coming weeks. |
| 1:57.0 | They have to decide if they're sending aid to Ukraine, or Israel for that matter. |
| 2:02.0 | Then there's the matter of funding the government. |
| 2:04.7 | Congress is facing not one but two spending cliffs, one as soon as next week. |
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