Shutdown Looms Despite House Spending Push

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A.M. Edition for Sept. 29. House Republicans passed a series of annual spending bills late Thursday, but deep divisions persist as the deadline to avert a government shutdown approaches. Plus, auto workers are poised to expand their strikes against Detroit carmakers today. And WSJ reporter Gabriel Rubin discusses the imminent resumption of student-loan payments in a changed landscape for borrowers. Keith Collins hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sam Bingman Freed, the founder of CryptoGiant FTX,
0:03.0	promised to give away his fortune.
0:04.8	But then, everything fell apart.
0:06.6	Sam, are you an ethical person?
0:08.8	I think I've tried as hard as I can to be one.
0:11.8	He's been accused of stealing billions of dollars
0:14.1	from customers and investors.
0:16.0	Is there anything you would want to say to Sam if you could?
0:19.0	Give me my f***ing money back.
0:20.8	Now he faces a jury.
0:23.2	From the journal, this is the trial of crypto's golden boy.
0:26.4	Find it in the journal feed-on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	In Washington, a flurry of house votes offers a mixed picture
0:37.3	of prospects for avoiding a government shutdown.
0:40.2	Plus, union auto workers prepare to escalate strikes against Detroit's big three car makers.
0:45.8	And millions of student loan borrowers face a new normal,
0:49.2	with payments set to resume after an extended pandemic cause.
0:52.8	It will cause these borrowers to pull back on
0:55.2	discretionary purchases that they had money for when they had an extra
0:59.9	two or three or five hundred dollars in their cash flow each month.
1:03.2	It's Friday, September 29th.
1:05.0	I'm Keith Collins for the Wall Street Journal,
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