Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer On Climate Law
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
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| 0:00.0 | This is Mo Brady. I'm currently standing in front of the remains of Fort |
| 0:05.4 | Wadsworth in Gateway National Recreation Area. Underneath the |
| 0:09.4 | Verazono Bridge and looking out towards New York Harbor. This podcast was |
| 0:13.7 | recorded at 1.10 pm on Thursday, August 17th. Things may have changed by the |
| 0:19.3 | time you hear it, but hopefully I'll still be exploring our nation's |
| 0:22.6 | incredible National Park System. Enjoy the show! |
| 0:28.1 | That sounds nice, I've never been there. Me either, that's lovely. It's very scenic. |
| 0:32.6 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast, um, Susan Davis, I cover politics. I'm |
| 0:37.2 | Deirdre Walsh, I cover Congress, and I'm Deepa Shiver on my cover-the-white house. |
| 0:40.2 | And this week marks one year since the Inflation Reduction Act, the not-so-greatly |
| 0:45.2 | named IRA, was signed into law. President Biden and top Democrats have taken a |
| 0:50.2 | bit of a victory lap this week. In Deirdre, you sat down with Senate Majority |
| 0:54.0 | Leader Chuck Schumer, and he was pretty adamant that he sees the IRA as central |
| 0:59.2 | to Democrats' chances next year. They're busy investigating, we're busy |
| 1:02.8 | investing in America. Ask yourself, which one does the public want? |
| 1:06.4 | I mean, that was Schumer's message to draw the contrast between Democrats |
| 1:11.3 | and Republicans in the 2024 election. He is all in on the IRA. He kept |
| 1:17.4 | talking about it over and over again as sort of the jobs and climate program |
| 1:22.2 | that they'll be able to point to over and over again, as proof that they're doing what |
| 1:28.4 | people need around the country and red states and blue states while house |
| 1:32.0 | Republicans are tied up in all kinds of investigations and to |
| 1:36.4 | Biden, the president, son, and other people. |
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