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Cleaning the barn and passing the gavel.

Hello again, I'm Aranalmi, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. Today, Congress is likely to pass the first federal budget in five years.

If the Senate agrees, the government will stay open and pay the bills till after the next election.

For the most part, Democrats are happy to go along, but the right wing of the GOP calls the bipartisan

deal surrender to President Obama.

The likely new speaker, Paul Ryan, won't have to deal with a default or a government shutdown,

but that looks like a curse to conservative colleagues.

We'll hear how a temporary return to business as usual is dramatizing the Republican Party's radical change.

Today's talking point, black life in America and systemic racism. First,

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Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point.

The bipartisan budget deal would keep the government open and paying its bills,

but it's being denounced by the right wing of the Republican Party.

We'll hear how business as usual has become a political liability.

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