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The NPR Politics Podcast

It's Been Months Since Congress Last Passed Coronavirus Aid. Americans Are Struggling.

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.524.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

As Republicans secure the votes to move forward on a Supreme Court nomination, government funding negotiations hit a snag. And Americans are struggling after months with no new federal coronavirus support.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Claudia and Robert Stale Alabama. Watching a power truck hopefully

0:05.6

reconnect our power after Hurricane Sally came through and knocked us out five

0:10.2

days ago. This podcast was recorded at 1.32 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22nd.

0:17.8

Things may have changed by the time you hear this and hopefully we'll have hot

0:22.7

showers and ice in the refrigerator again. Here's the show. Oh my gosh five days

0:31.4

is so long. Wow, that just feels like forever. Well, I hope that you have power by

0:36.8

the time you are listening to this podcast. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics

0:41.4

podcast. I'm Tamar Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Kelsey Snelli cover

0:45.1

Congress. I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent. So we are in the

0:49.5

midst of a pandemic, which officially today has killed 200,000 Americans. There

0:55.6

is a grueling fight over a Supreme Court seat and perhaps now we could be

1:01.2

headed toward a government shutdown. Kelsey, tell me it isn't true. I mean we've

1:05.7

talked about this before as a possibility, but I thought you thought that this

1:10.0

was going to be pretty straightforward. What happened? You know, I should have

1:14.2

put some 2020 into my kill. A little sprinkle of 2020 in there. Yeah. So we had

1:22.8

known four weeks that there was bipartisan agreement on the need for a

1:27.4

basic spending stopgap that would just extend the current funding levels and

1:31.1

nothing else until we could get past the election. But then all of a sudden the

1:36.8

bill that was released on Monday, which we were supposed to see on Friday,

1:40.0

which you know, had people starting to wonder, didn't have a few things in it

1:45.2

that Republicans in particular were looking for. Democrats released this

1:49.3

stopgap spending bill and made a point when it was coming out of saying that it

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