This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a different funding battle quickly approaching.

Again, we thought we would talk about that and the deficit which is often cited in these government funding battles and has grown

quite a bit over the last several years. So what does that mean for us what

its solutions could actually address the deficit.

We're going to talk about all that.

And then outside of politics, we're going to talk about a very controversial suggestion

that you should pay your kids to read.

Before that, we are excited to announce that our next quarterly live event which we call

The Spicy Live because it is a different flavor than you get here on the podcast is next week

on September 19th at 8 p.m. Eastern. If you are one of our beloved

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Up next, let's talk about Mike Johnson.

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