Immigration Legislation Is A No Go
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This episode: Senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:46.0 | 137 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, February 7th. Things may have changed by the time you hear it. |
| 0:53.7 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:54.7 | I may have a blanket on my lap right now. |
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| 1:06.4 | Podcast I'm Tammer Keith I cover the White House. I'm Claudia |
| 1:10.3 | I cover Congress and I'm Domenica Monnetaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 1:14.0 | Remember the bipartisan Senate compromise on the border we've been talking about for weeks? |
| 1:20.0 | Negotiators finally unveiled the language on Sunday. |
| 1:22.8 | Today is Wednesday and we can safely say it is dead. |
| 1:27.2 | The bill was negotiated with the support of the top Republican in the Senate, |
| 1:31.6 | Mitch McConnell, but former President Donald Trump |
| 1:34.8 | trashed it and essentially made killing the bill a loyalty test for |
| 1:38.4 | congressional Republicans. Claudia, you have been covering this. did we get here right it was quite the journey several |
| 1:46.9 | months long of negotiations there was a core group of bipartisan senators working on this plan and they were tight-lipped in terms of the provisions |
| 1:57.8 | but there was a lot of confidence and a lot of support there from both sides of the aisle in terms of the leaders, for example, |
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