Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 25th, 2017, The Glowing Orb Edition.

I'm David Flotz of Atlas Obscura here in the D.C. studio with John Faced the Nation Dickerson.

Hello, John.

Hello, David.

How are you?

I'm well.

I have a cold glass of water in my left hand, which is totally unexpected.

And it's the simple pleasures that make the day better.

You do look well hydrated, on your way to being well hydrated.

And from her attic, her garret, her

her attic, her hideout, her hideout. It's true. It's Emily Bazelon of the New York Times

magazine. Hello, Emily. Hello, hello. On this week's Gab Fest, wow, it was every, I thought

it was going to be a sort of slow news week and then it never is.

First, the double whammy of the president's budget and the CBO score of the Congressional Health Bill.

We'll all fold that together.

And we'll even fold in a secret third piece to that, but I'm not going to tell you about it yet.

Then the president's strange and surprisingly gaff-free foreign trip.

Then the huge racial gerrymandering case at the Supreme Court.

Emily's going to go deep on that one.

Plus, we will have a cocktail chatter and a slate plus topic.

The president introduced his budget this week, and it's a

doozy, a fantasy novel that marries enormous tax cuts for rich people to ginormous cuts to

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