GOP Spending Rift, Zelenskyy Interview, Louisiana Police Probe
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🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Republicans are a house divided. |
| 0:05.0 | Members are struggling to overcome the party's deep divisions on funding the government. |
| 0:10.0 | We've got plenty of time here to make a complete progress. |
| 0:13.0 | Will they avert a shutdown? |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Layla Faldon, that's Amartina's and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:21.0 | Ukraine's president visits Washington today to ask for more support for his country's defense. |
| 0:26.0 | We have the same values, freedom and democracy, and that's why we are fighting against Russia. |
| 0:31.0 | But as term is up, can Ukraine hold elections in a war zone? |
| 0:35.0 | And a Louisiana city's police force faces tough questions over cops accused of being people in an unmarked warehouse. |
| 0:42.0 | I decided to permanently close the facility. |
| 0:45.0 | We'll hear how officials in Baton Rouge are responding. |
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| 2:06.0 | House Republicans started the week with a plan to vote on their own spending bill to show the Senate they could pass something, enforce negotiations to take place over government funding. |
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