Here's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Here are two translations

from your parliamentary Congress speak to plain English dictionary. Continuing resolution

means they pass the stopgap funding measure for a few weeks rather than a full year's budget,

so we'll have more government shutdown drama in about six weeks. Motion to discharge

translates as, wait, what? Most Republicans and most Democrats voted together to approve

a continuing resolution rather than stay in their camps with no bipartisanship. Yes, that's

what happened. And motion to vacate. Definition? Well, that's not about going on vacation.

So maybe they should. Motion to vacate means kickhouse speaker out of his job because

he wasn't Republican enough for the Republicans and certainly not Democrat enough for the Democrats,

not Republican enough for Republicans like Matt Gates.

Speaker McCarthy made an agreement with House Conservatives in January. And since then

he has been in brazen, repeated material breach of that agreement. This agreement that

he made with Democrats to really blow past a lot of the spending guardrails we'd set

up is a last straw. And then overnight I learned that Kevin McCarthy had a secret deal

with Democrats on Ukraine. Florida Congressman Matt Gates on CNN state of the union with

Jack Capri yesterday. Gates from the far right of the party that wanted much bigger spending

cuts than they got in the continuing resolution. How big? Just ask New York Congresswoman Alexandria

Ocasio-Cortez. They tried to cut across the board 30 percent of the budgets of critical

agencies like the Social Security Administration. They voted some of the most moderate members,

quote unquote moderate members of the Republican Party, casted votes for things like 80 percent

cuts under the Department of Education to low income schools. This is not a moderate

party period. There are not moderates in the Republican Party. There are just different

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