Once Derided As Graft, Earmarks Just Helped Congress Pass A Bipartisan Budget Deal
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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And the 2020 Census undercounted many Black, Latino, and Native Americans. White, non-Latino Americans were overcounted. That could help to perpetuate inequality.
This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, correspondent Hansi Lo Wang, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Nicholas from Morehead, Minnesota where turkeys have already taken over the city |
| 0:05.3 | This podcast was recorded at |
| 0:08.2 | 135 p.m. On the 11th of March |
| 0:12.2 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I advise that all those who are afraid of birds stay far away from here |
| 0:19.4 | All right, here's the show |
| 0:24.2 | The turkeys are taking over everywhere |
| 0:26.2 | Birds the birds are back |
| 0:28.7 | more birds |
| 0:30.8 | We have lots to talk about when it comes to critters as spring starts |
| 0:35.0 | Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House |
| 0:39.5 | I'm Kelsey Snell. I cover Congress and I'm Domenico Montanara senior political editor and correspondent |
| 0:45.1 | This Senate voted Thursday night to approve a massive spending package |
| 0:49.7 | It includes 1.5 trillion dollars in funding to keep the federal government open |
| 0:55.4 | It also includes more than 13 billion dollars in emergency aid for Ukraine |
| 1:01.6 | Kelsey, let's start with this government funding |
| 1:06.2 | This seems to have been relatively drama-free |
| 1:11.0 | Is there a reason for that? |
| 1:13.1 | Well, some of it is because there was broad agreement that nobody wanted a government shutdown and the situation with Ukraine actually |
| 1:19.8 | Put a lot of emphasis on making sure they got a full-year funding package the really short version of why that was important is that if they just kept continuing |
| 1:30.8 | Resolutions which is basically extending the current funding levels they'd be extending |
| 1:36.0 | Basically out-of-date funding levels funding levels that were meant to be applied to a time you know before |
| 1:42.3 | The current situation in Ukraine and really before any of the current domestic |
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