This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsew Politics.

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Today we're going to catch up on the debt ceiling deal and discuss the state of the

presidential race as it is here at the end of May 2023. Then we'll share a

conversation with Elizabeth Hodges about genealogy and how it connects to our

understanding of the world. This is the last regular show before we begin our

summer season. So outside of politics we're going to tell you what you can expect

here for the months of June and July. Before we get to the news we wanted to say

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mean a lot to us if you could take a few minutes and do that. Up next we have a debt ceiling deal.

We'll talk about what it is and what we think it means.

Last week we talked about the

brinkmanship around the debt ceiling over the weekend.

President Biden and Speaker McCarthy announced that they had reached a deal

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