January 27, 2025: House GOP retreats and regroups
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by BP. |
| 0:05.7 | Good morning, everyone. I'm Zach Stanton. It's Monday, January 27th, and here's what's driving the day. |
| 0:11.4 | Today, House Republicans head to President Donald Trump's Miami area resort for their annual policy retreat. |
| 0:16.8 | But it's not all sunshine and good vibes. They have major decisions to make that will have |
| 0:20.9 | big implications for the Trump legislative agenda. And here with me to talk about all of that is |
| 0:25.6 | Congress reporter Meredith Lee Hill. Good morning, Meredith. Good morning. Setting the scene here, |
| 0:31.3 | what is the point of this retreat? You know, what do the attendees hope to accomplish? |
| 0:36.1 | Well, normally these kinds of retreats are kind of a team-building activity, |
| 0:40.4 | really supposed to get all of the House Republicans on the same page |
| 0:44.3 | and give them some time away from the chaos of Washington |
| 0:48.2 | to kind of come together and do a little bit of planning, |
| 0:50.8 | but also to enjoy themselves. |
| 0:52.7 | This retreat, obviously, is going to be a lot |
| 0:54.7 | different. They will have some time down here in Florida, but they will really have a huge amount of |
| 1:01.5 | work to do as far as really setting and putting forward a plan to accomplish President Trump's |
| 1:08.5 | agenda. So the biggest task for the gathering, as I understand it, is to sort of finalize a budget |
| 1:13.8 | blueprint for the party line bill that they're planning that's going to touch on energy, |
| 1:19.1 | border security, and tax policy. |
| 1:21.4 | Where do things stand on that? |
| 1:23.0 | Are the dividing lines budging or moving at all? |
| 1:25.6 | It's interesting. |
| 1:26.3 | I think there's been a lot of movement in the past few weeks as far as House |
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