IVF Bill, VA Funding, Listener Questions

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Mike and May open this supporters’ midweek episode with a discussion of Senate Democrats’ failed IVF bill. Both Mike and May think there’s something to be said for the legislation itself while agreeing that it was more of a messaging bill than a serious legislative proposal. From there they turn to strong bipartisan support for emergency funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Mike expresses at least some surprise that no House Republicans seemed to object to nearly $3 billion in additional funding that was needed in large part because of the PACT Act, which over 80 percent of House Republicans voted against in 2022. They close by answering a number of listener questions on the pro-life movement, Trump’s manipulability, sex vs gender identity, US birth rate trends, and healthcare for inmates. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the Sustainable Planet podcast, as well as the free Sustainable Planet Substack. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.1	So for fact sake, search the economist.
0:30.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired widows, vandal, Oolagulloghs.
0:35.1	Love the government, hug the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, hug the government.
0:42.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:48.7	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Baranowski.
0:52.6	I'm joined today by my conservative counterpart, attorney and former deputy assistant
0:56.8	to President Trump, May Malman.
0:59.2	Hi, Mike.
1:00.5	Hey, May.
1:00.9	I was going to say, hey, Jay, I've just been hardwired into my head to say that after so many
1:05.1	years.
1:06.5	But my different conservative counterpart, but yeah, so as always, we didn't have time to get to everything that we wanted to get to in the regular show.
1:18.5	Starting with something, I think kind of an interesting issue because it cuts across partisan lines in certain ways.
1:25.7	And that's IVF with this Senate IV Senate IVF bill that that came up and couldn't defeat it, couldn't get over a filibuster. But I'll, I'll let you kind of take it from there.
1:35.1	Yeah. So the Democrats put up a bill that would have given individuals a statutory right to IVF and that insurers
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