This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics where we take a different approach

to the news. Today we're going to check in on the debt ceiling negotiations between

the Biden administration and the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. As

the June 1st deadline for default creeps closer and closer, also as we mark three years

since the murder of George Floyd, we're going to share a powerful conversation we had with

Monique Milton about that particular moment and how it felt to be a black influencer that

went viral on Instagram during that time.

And outside of politics, we're going to talk about the end of the school year and the start

of summer.

Before we get started, we want to thank all of you who have joined our premium community

and hope that you will still do that if you haven't yet.

We especially want to welcome two new executive producers to our team, Jen Ross and Sabrina

Drago executive producers are people who support our podcast at the $100 a month level.

So it's a real investment in our community and what we do.

And we just wanted to share a little bit from Jen about why she did that. She said, I'm

so excited to be able to help support the amazing work you all do. I started listening to

the podcast at the beginning of the pandemic as a means to stay connected to the news in

as low of an anxiety producing situation as possible. I avoided the news as much as possible

for most of my life because it affected me so deeply as an anxiety prone person. I knew

I wanted and needed to stay more in the know, but didn't know how I could do so without

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