Roundup: A Trade War With Canada, Inflation Ticks Up, And The Shutdown Persists
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
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| 0:12.1 | Learn more at RWJF.org. |
| 0:15.6 | Hi, this is Michael Summers, a 75-year-old retired 41 years in the classroom teacher out of the Haleyham, Oregon. |
| 0:25.5 | When COVID started in 2020, my dog Squishy and I started taking daily heights. |
| 0:31.6 | And we're out now about to cross our 4,000th mile. |
| 0:36.8 | Whoa. |
| 0:39.7 | This show was recorded at 12.37 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, October 24th, 2025. |
| 0:45.1 | Things may certainly have changed since you hear this, |
| 0:49.0 | but Squishy and I will still be walking the stunningly beautiful hills of the northwest. Enjoy the show, Squishy and I will still be walking the stunningly beautiful hills of the Northwest. |
| 0:56.2 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:57.7 | Squishy and I will. |
| 1:02.4 | I love that. |
| 1:03.6 | I aspire 4,000 miles in my 70s. |
| 1:06.4 | That's amazing. |
| 1:07.6 | Also, Squishy, possibly the best dog name ever. |
| 1:10.5 | I love it. Someone with a silly dog name |
| 1:12.4 | as well, buckets. I love that. Buckets. Aw. Love a dumb dog name. Also squishy, the gravel beneath |
| 1:19.6 | his feet because I was very impressed by the Nats sound or, as the kids call it, ASMR. Yeah, there we go. |
| 1:26.5 | Hey there, it's an NPR Politics podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. I'm Tamara. I cover the White House. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And today on the show, we're going to try to make sense of another busy week in Washington. Let's start with the government shutdown, which is now on day 24. Today marks the first full miss paycheck for more than a million |
| 1:46.3 | federal workers. Domenico, let's start with you. I mean, are there any signs that the shutdown |
| 1:50.7 | could be nearing a resolution? There are no signs. This is likely headed for the longest government |
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