Look Over There, It’s a Diversion!
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
4.7 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Host Reed Galen answers questions asked by the members of the Lincoln Project community about the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives, the 2024 presidential election, and the finer points of political messaging and strategy. Plus, why the war in Ukraine continues to be crucial in the fight for democracy. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hey gang, it's Reed. Before we get started, I just want to say thank you again for listening, |
| 0:03.9 | and I hope that you will share the Lincoln Project podcast and our mission to protect American |
| 0:09.2 | democracy with your friends, your family, and your colleagues. To get more information, |
| 0:14.4 | please go to LincolnProject.us and sign up to be a supporter today. And now on with the show. |
| 0:21.4 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Galen. Today, I'm once again coming to |
| 0:35.3 | you all solo for our first Q&A episode of 2023. I'll be answering questions asked by you, the listeners, |
| 0:42.1 | and members of the Lincoln Project community. Rick, Stu, Joe, and I, and everyone at the Lincoln |
| 0:47.4 | Project love hearing from you all. And as always, if you have a question for us, please send them |
| 0:52.5 | to podcastatlinkinproject.us. But before we get started, I just want to say that we are recording this |
| 0:59.6 | the morning of the state of the union. I'm lucky enough to be here in studio and Washington, DC. So |
| 1:04.8 | let's get to it. All right, got some questions about the Republican House. Stephanie Melrose on |
| 1:10.6 | Facebook asks, with regards to the debt ceiling, with the games the Republican House is playing, |
| 1:15.9 | and the impact on so many Americans, what can we really expect? Well, Stephanie, this is a good |
| 1:20.6 | question. And you've answered your own question, which is games. Kevin McCarthy sold out to Maga |
| 1:26.8 | to get the speakers, Gabel. And one of the things they decided that they were going to do was make |
| 1:32.3 | a big deal about the debt ceiling. Now, what is the debt ceiling? The debt ceiling is the legal |
| 1:37.5 | amount of money the United States Treasury is allowed to borrow to pay off debts, not to continue |
| 1:44.4 | operations, but to pay off the debts we've already incurred. And so if we don't raise that, |
| 1:50.4 | then we run out of the ability to basically fund government operations because just like a big |
| 1:55.7 | company, the government borrows money by selling bonds, and then it pays its bills. This is not an |
| 2:01.6 | unusual thing. I think remember that when you hear McCarthy talking about how we have to get our |
| 2:06.2 | fiscal house in order and all this other stuff. Remember, it was Republicans in 2017 and 2018 |
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