The “When I'm 64” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz and John Dickerson are joined by Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post to discuss Trumpcare, the President's proposed budget, and the new Muslim ban.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 16th, 2017, the When I'm 64 edition. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas of Scura. |
| 0:18.5 | John Dickerson is with me here in Slate's DC studio of Face the Nation. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello, David. |
| 0:26.1 | And Emily is absent this week, but no matter, because Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post is here instead. |
| 0:33.4 | Hello, Ruth. |
| 0:33.9 | It's great to have you. |
| 0:34.5 | Hi. |
| 0:34.8 | It's great to be here. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm not trying to create dissension between you and Emily or compare you to Emily in any way or make it seem like you're a better person to have on the show than Emily would be. |
| 0:46.3 | Not at all. |
| 0:46.9 | It's not possible. |
| 0:48.0 | Definitely not trying to say that. |
| 0:50.1 | On this week's GabFest, the CBO scores Trump care, and the numbers are even worse than the |
| 0:55.8 | Republicans feared. |
| 0:57.5 | Then Trump's new budget, his lean budget, arrives on Capitol Hill, and it takes a meat axe |
| 1:05.0 | to the federal government except to the military and to Department of Homeland Security. |
| 1:09.1 | Well, we'll talk about what may or may not get through from Trump's budget and also what it's |
| 1:14.1 | like to run a government where you don't actually have any people at the senior levels |
| 1:18.5 | running that government. |
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