Speaker Johnson’s first test

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, infamous election denier, moved to the middle to make a budget deal with Democrats. But he promised the real fight is still to come. This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's been a heck of a week for Republicans in the United States Congress.
0:04.0	What?
0:05.6	An Oklahoma senator challenged the president of the teamsters to a fight?
0:09.2	You want to do it now?
0:10.2	I'd love to do it right now.
0:11.2	Let's stand your butt up.
0:12.4	You stand your butt up. You stand up on them.
0:13.0	Oh, hold, big guy.
0:14.0	Oh, stop it.
0:15.0	Is that your solution every public?
0:17.0	No, no, sit down.
0:18.0	Go, no, you're a United States senator.
0:20.0	The chair of the Oversight Committee made fun of a Democrats blue suit.
0:23.6	You look like a smurf here just going around at all the...
0:26.7	The former speaker allegedly assaulted one of his colleagues who voted to oust him.
0:31.2	I got elbowed in the back and it kind of caught me off guard because it was a clean shot
0:35.5	to the kidneys and I turned back and there was Kevin.
0:38.0	And that was just Tuesday.
0:39.7	All that madness overshadowed the craziest thing that happened on the hill this week.
0:43.2	The new speaker averted a government shutdown by doing the same thing that got Kevin fired.
0:48.2	He worked with Democrats.
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