January 15, 2018
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 15 January 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Good Monday morning and happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I'm Anna Palmer. And welcome to your Politico |
| 0:06.4 | Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by the National Retail Federation. And I'm Jake Sherman. Breaking this |
| 0:10.9 | morning in Washington, a red line train derailed at about 6.40 a.m. Wamata tweeted that it was carrying |
| 0:16.2 | 60 passengers and derailed outside Farragut North. No injuries were reported. Shuttle buses are running |
| 0:21.9 | between DuPont and Judiciary Square. For those of you who do not live in D.C., the red line is the |
| 0:26.6 | main artery through Washington. Ferrigat North is right smack in the middle of D.C., blocks from the |
| 0:31.5 | White House on the corner of Connecticut Avenue and K. Street. Gallup is out with some good news |
| 0:35.2 | for Republicans. It found that roughly six in 10 |
| 0:38.2 | Republicans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. The party's highest |
| 0:43.9 | satisfaction level since 2007. And the countdown to a government shutdown is on. Funding runs |
| 0:50.9 | dry Friday. Here's what to expect. House GOP leadership is at its retreat today and |
| 0:56.5 | tomorrow. When they get back, they'll hold a closed House Republican conference meeting Tuesday evening |
| 1:02.0 | to gauge the mood for a stopgap government funding measure that would last until February 16th. |
| 1:08.6 | Why? There is no immediate deal to put DACA into law and there is no |
| 1:13.2 | spending cap deal. Congress needs more time. But it seems extraordinarily unlikely Democrats will |
| 1:19.0 | help pass another short-term bill, at least in the House. So Speaker Paul Ryan and House Majority |
| 1:23.4 | Leader Kevin McCarthy will have to find 218 Republicans to want to avoid a shutdown. In the Senate, Republicans are betting the Democrats up for re-election in Trump states will not shut down the government over not getting a DACA deal. Republicans control the entire government, but they'll try to use the Senate floor to hammer Democrats on priorities that are floundering due to the lack of a DACA deal. For example, they might force repeated votes on things like |
| 1:44.3 | CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program. Democrats, meanwhile, believe they're on the right |
| 1:48.1 | side of this politically. DACA is widely popular, and Republicans control the government. They say |
| 1:53.0 | the president is mucking around to the DACA negotiations and tripping on himself. Therefore, |
| 1:56.8 | he'll own a shutdown. Buckle up. Rachel Bade is reporting on another headache for Paul |
| 2:01.7 | Ryan. House conservatives want him to bring up a partisan immigration bill that has little |
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