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female student in my class.

This podcast was recorded at 12.37 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, December 19th, 2024.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be catching up on sleep

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I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics.

I'm Deirdre Walsh. I cover Congress. And I'm Susan Davis. I also cover politics.

A negotiated bipartisan deal to keep the government running into next year collapsed in dramatic fashion yesterday.

And now a shutdown will begin at midnight on Friday unless lawmakers can scramble together a new deal. Deirdre, how did this happen? Well, as you said, the speaker

negotiated this bipartisan deal that essentially funded the government into mid-March. His members

knew he was negotiating with Democrats. We're

still in divided government on Capitol Hill, so he had to cut a deal with Senate Democrats.

The bill also included money for disaster aid. A lot of his own members support disaster aid

for places like North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina that were hit hard by hurricanes

in the last few months. But he also put some other things on it that Democrats wanted.

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