Government shutdown déjà vu
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Congress is once again in a race against the clock to pass a gargantuan federal spending bill to keep the government up and running past Saturday. We’ll get into it. And, the Joe Biden administration made a groundbreaking investment in Intel’s chip manufacturing business in an effort to spur the domestic semiconductor industry. Plus, Nvidia’s next generation AI chips and Caitlin Clark’s place in the booming world of women’s sports.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “CHIPS Act to give Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding, plus loans” from Marketplace
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- “For Women’s Basketball, Caitlin Clark’s Lasting Impact May Be Economic” from The New York Times
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- “NCAA women’s basketball success is about more than Caitlin Clark” from Marketplace
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| 0:00.0 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:04.0 | all right, where I was here. |
| 0:05.0 | I just heard something on the news about the guy who played Ferris Buellers. |
| 0:09.0 | Wasn't it like his birthday or something? |
| 0:11.0 | Matthew Broderick, I don't know. |
| 0:14.0 | Uh, all right, Justin Dooler, that's controls. |
| 0:18.0 | There we go. |
| 0:19.0 | There we go. |
| 0:20.0 | There we go. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Kai Rizdahl Thursday, today March 21st. |
| 0:32.0 | Thanks for coming on the pod, being on the pod, whatever it is, you're here. |
| 0:35.4 | Yes, and today we are going to do what we normally do on Thursdays, which is listen back to some audio clips from some of the big stories of the week so we have a |
| 0:44.1 | couple of those snippets lined up let's hear our first one. This is not a |
| 0:49.1 | political or policy question for me it's basic timekeeping amending this bill will take up time |
| 0:55.1 | that we don't have all but guaranteeing a shutdown. |
| 0:58.6 | Is that you or me? I love that to me but I just love the sort of this exhaustion in his voice. |
| 1:07.2 | That was Hawaii Senator Brian Schott's talking about the need for Congress to move quickly and pass a spending bill as we approach yet |
| 1:16.0 | another government shutdown deadline. |
| 1:19.4 | And so just as a reminder, they did this sort of latter continuing resolution thing where they had |
| 1:25.5 | one package of bills to fund a portion of the government that already made it |
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