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The NPR Politics Podcast

Roundup: Congress Works On Budget; Cabinet Meets; Good TV

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.524.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Congress is trying to come up with a new budget, while also attempting to extend tax cuts put in place during President Trump's first term. But with a very small majority in both houses, Republicans have little margin for error.

Then, we look at the first cabinet meeting of the Trump administration, the upcoming presidential address to a joint session of Congress, and changes to the White House press pool.

And, we can't let go of television — a lot of it.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, congressional correspondent Barbara Sprunt, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

The podcast is produced by Bria Suggs & Kelli Wessinger and edited by Casey Morell. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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0:17.6

This is Greg, and I am in beautiful Snowcombe, Washington at a health care conference,

0:23.5

and I just finished listening to a keynote address given by one.

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Tamanica Monce now.

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That's me.

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It's not a recording.

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And it was great.

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This podcast was recorded at 1137 a.m. on Friday, February 28th.

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Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

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Oh, wow.

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Well, how cool is that?

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As soon as he started saying Snowquammy, I was like, I've been there.

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It's a really nice place.

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I totally forgot that it was a while back.

0:52.7

We recently had a McCammon stamp with McCammon hosting and now Domenico's stamp with Domenico in the pod. What a treat.

0:58.5

Hey there. It's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. I'm Barbara Spr for the weekly roundup. And we're going to start on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are trying to figure out how to get a budget through Congress that will allow

1:15.1

them to extend President Trump's 2017 tax cuts, most of which will expire at the end of the year.

1:21.1

Barbara, this is going to be a long journey for Republicans. But look, Speaker Mike Johnson,

1:25.4

he's had a lot of defeats on the floor. He enjoyed a rare, unified win. How to go down.

1:30.5

That's right. Yeah, big win for the speaker. There were plenty of holdouts in his conference on this budget resolution, which as we've talked about before on the podcast is an early step in using the reconciliation process to pass a lot of what President Trump wants to see happen,

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