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The NPR Politics Podcast

Senate Reaches Deal To End Shutdown

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Three days into a partial government shutdown, the Senate has passed a bill to fund the government through February 8th. The bill does not include a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which had been a key demand for many Democrats. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged to bring DACA legislation up for a vote soon. This episode, host/congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional reporter Kelsey Snell and White House correspondent Scott Horsley. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Reese Vaughan calling from San Diego, California.

0:04.0

I'm coming to you from the back seat of my mom's car listening to NPR on the radio as we drive home from school.

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This podcast was recorded at...

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156 PM Eastern on Monday, January 22nd.

0:16.0

Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

0:19.0

Keep up with all of NPR's political coverage at NPR.org on the NPR app or your local public radio station.

0:26.0

Okay, here's the show.

0:30.0

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.

0:34.0

The shutdown has been shut down.

0:36.0

This afternoon, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to advance a bill funding the federal government through February 8th.

0:42.0

The bill did not address the deferred action for Childhood Arrivals program,

0:46.0

which had been the key demand for many of the Democrats who voted to block funding last week.

0:52.0

As we taped this podcast, there's still another Senate vote and a House vote ahead,

0:56.0

but it looks like the shutdown is ending on its first full work day and without the results Democrats wanted.

1:02.0

We will walk through exactly what happened.

1:05.0

I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress for NPR.

1:07.0

I'm Kelsey Snowlight, also cover Congress.

1:09.0

And I'm Scott Horsley, and I cover the White House.

1:11.0

Well, hello again everybody.

1:12.0

Hi.

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So...

1:14.0

Seems like we were all here just a couple of nights ago.

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