McCarthy’s Impeaching Biden to Keep His Job
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
House speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the opening of an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, but members of the Freedom Caucus—a group of right-wing Republicans with a taste for dramatic, extreme actions—had already moved on to fighting the next spending bill, potentially steering the government to another shutdown.
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer.
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| 0:41.0 | This whole show is about shenanigans in Washington, |
| 0:43.0 | from impeachment proceedings against the President |
| 0:45.0 | to Kevin McCarthy's imperiled speakership, |
| 0:48.0 | and the looming potential government shutdown. |
| 0:52.0 | This weekend, a half dozen Republicans announced |
| 0:54.0 | they had reached a deal that was going to keep the government funded |
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