September 19, 2023: What we’re watching at UNGA

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

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With a number of other world leaders skipping the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, President Joe Biden has the opportunity to take the spotlight. He is expected to push a message of democracy and encourage more funding for humanitarian aid for Ukraine. But, as senior foreign correspondent Nahal Toosi tells Playbook co-author Rachael Bade, there is plenty more to keep an eye on at UNGA. Plus, all the latest on the spending showdown tearing House Republicans apart. Playbook co-author Rachael Bade interviews Senior Foreign Correspondent Nahal Toosi.

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0:00.0	Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Tuesday, September 19th. The House is in total chaos this morning as conservatives fight not only House Republican leaders, but their own conservative colleagues over how to a government shutdown on October 1st. There are still at least 15 holdouts right now,
0:23.6	Republicans who are refusing to back this deal that was struck between centrist Republicans
0:28.1	and some members of the Freedom Caucus to extend government funding for a month,
0:33.5	institute some cuts across the board, and also fortify the border with a new crackdown on immigration.
0:39.7	Now, things got pretty ugly and heated yesterday.
0:42.5	Congresswoman Victoria Sparks, for example, when she put out a statement saying she would oppose this CR,
0:48.0	she called McCarthy a weak speaker and said that he should be fighting harder for the American people.
0:55.1	McCarthy responded by knocking sparts for retiring.
0:58.4	She's actually going to be retiring at the end of the Congress.
1:00.8	He said that if she was concerned about fighting stronger, she should run again and not quit.
1:05.9	In other places, conservatives were going after conservatives.
1:09.6	Matt Gates was sparring with byron donalds who's
1:12.5	another florida republican top trump ally donalds had been one of the key authors of this deal
1:18.5	between moderates and centrists and gates went after him saying that the deal wasn't good enough
1:24.0	a couple dynamics to keep an eye on this morning. The Problem Solvers
1:27.8	Caucus is actually considering a plan B if Republicans can't rally behind a conservative
1:33.0	CR. They are threatening to work with Democrats to pass a clean CR and make an end run around
1:39.5	the entire majority. We are also hearing that McCarthy told his members in a private leadership meeting last
1:45.1	night that he wants his rank and file to take a vote on this CR, regardless of whether or not they
1:51.3	actually have the votes. He wants his members to be on record and he thinks it's going to be
1:56.2	hard for conservatives to vote against a bill that the Freedom Caucus leadership actually
2:00.8	helped author.
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