Senate Reaches Deal To End Shutdown
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:12.0 | 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. |
| 1:13.0 | So... |
| 1:14.0 | Seems like we were all here just a couple of nights ago. |
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