Hi, I'm Kirby and I've just set up camp outside of Shepherdstown, West Virginia

While I bike the 330 miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C

This podcast was recorded at

121 pm Eastern time on Thursday, July 15th now like life itself and the trail conditions

Things may have changed by the time you heard this. All right, here's the show. I

Have cousins who did that ride it's amazing. I support the ride

I question the timing of doing it in late July true like spring or fall might be a more pleasant weather

Temperature-wise to do that kind of exercise seriously. Well, hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast

I must much hall it I cover the White House. I'm Tamer Keith

I also cover the White House and I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress

So President Biden is trying to push his economic agenda through Congress in two parts

One is a bipartisan infrastructure plan that we have talked a lot about on this show

I'm Frank Fjolopry tired of hearing about it, but Sue there is another part

Just begin by describing what is this other part of his agenda?

You know this budget and spending plan if enacted

Would be the largest expansion of the federal government in our lifetimes and maybe for the rest of our lives

It would be truly historic legislation and Democrats would be the first people to tell you this

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer was on the floor of the Senate this morning speaking exactly about this

It will allow us to pass the most significant legislation to expand support for American families

Since the era of the New Deal and the great society if not quite rose a veltian scope

It is certainly near rose veltian budget chairman Bernie Sanders has talked about this a lot too

I mean for months he's been saying what they intend to do with this legislation is

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