Speaker Johnson VS. House Far-Right GOP
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
House Republicans are in chaos again after a second conservative lawmaker voiced support for a push to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. The speaker announced plans to bring a foreign aid bill for Ukraine up for a vote, causing an uproar. Joan Greve, senior political reporter for The Guardian, breaks down the mood on Capitol Hill.In the Senate, lawmakers will consider a bill to reauthorize a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, that has bipartisan support and bipartisan critics. The part of the law up for renewal allows the federal government to obtain vast amounts of intelligence and communications within the broad category of “foreign intelligence information,” all without a warrant. Without quick Senate approval, it will expire on Friday.
Speaker Johnson VS. House Far-Right GOPAnd in headlines: The Supreme Court seemed open to siding with some January 6th rioters in a case that could undo hundreds of Justice Department prosecutions, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the US will enforce new sanctions on Iran after its weekend attack on Israel, and seven jurors have been seated in former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal hush-money trial.
Show Notes:
- WSJ: "On Ukraine’s Front Line, Soldiers Are Forced to Tune In to Washington Politics" –https://tinyurl.com/3kptnhk7
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 17th. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Priyanka Ara Bindy. |
| 0:04.4 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day, |
| 0:07.6 | where we also think you should be banned from Disney Parks |
| 0:09.9 | if you lie about having a disability. |
| 0:11.5 | Yeah, that is the bare minimum. |
| 0:13.4 | If you're telling that kind of lie |
| 0:14.7 | to get to the front of the line, |
| 0:16.2 | much worse things are coming to you than being banned from that park. |
| 0:18.8 | Let me just tell you that. |
| 0:19.7 | You need to talk to someone. |
| 0:20.7 | Yes. |
| 0:21.4 | Let's just do a self-examination, you know? Reevaluate |
| 0:24.4 | everything. Everything. On today's show, the FISA bill that includes warrantless surveillance awaits a vote from the Senate. |
| 0:36.0 | Plus, your daily dose of Trump's hush money trial. |
| 0:39.0 | But first, another day, another chaotic moment for House Republicans. This time it's over |
| 0:44.3 | House Speaker Mike Johnson's decision to bring wartime aid for Ukraine up for a |
| 0:48.7 | vote in the House. There is a bit of a backstory here so So back in February, lawmakers in the Senate passed a $95 billion |
| 0:55.7 | foreign aid bill to send money to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. |
| 0:59.4 | But it has gone nowhere in the House. |
| 1:01.6 | And that is because the Republican Party's hard right flank |
| 1:04.3 | is vehemently opposed to sending more money to Ukraine. They were already mad at |
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