Making Sense Of Cents: Setting The Federal Budget

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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has called for the government's spending to be wrapped into "one big, beautiful bill" along with other legislative priorities, but Congress may have other ideas. We explore how the White House and Congress will need to work together to fund the government.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith.

The podcast is produced by Bria Suggs & Kelli Wessinger and edited by Casey Morell. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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0:00.0	This is Irid Glass, the host of This American Life.
0:02.9	So much is changing so rapidly right now with President Trump in office.
0:07.3	It feels good to pause for a moment sometimes and look around at what's what.
0:10.7	Just try and do that.
0:11.4	We've been finding these incredible stories about right now that are funny and have feeling,
0:16.1	and you get to see people everywhere making sense of this new America that we find ourselves in.
0:21.4	This American life, wherever you get your podcast.
0:24.4	Hi, this is John, and I am doing the last mile of a hundred kilometer trail race through Zion National Park.
0:30.9	And you're listening to the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:34.4	This episode was recorded at 106 p.m. on Monday, May 5th.
0:38.6	And things certainly may have changed by the time you listen to this, and I will definitely
0:43.6	be done after 16 and a half hours of a lot of running on a very hot day. Enjoy.
0:52.9	How is he okay?
0:54.6	He doesn't sound breathless enough for someone.
0:57.1	Congratulations.
0:58.0	And he sounds amazing for the last kilometer.
1:00.7	Man.
1:01.0	16 hours.
1:02.6	Thank you.
1:03.3	So much pain.
1:04.6	But impressive.
1:05.5	Very impressive.
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