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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punchable News Readback Podcast. I'm your host, Max Cohen,

and today I'm joined by our policy reporter and author of the portal newsletter, Sammy Handler.

Sammy, thanks for joining me.

Thanks so much for having me, Max. I'm excited to be here.

Yeah, I think it is your readback podcast debut.

Is that right?

It is.

I'm so excited.

It's been a great time.

Yeah, well, really glad to have you on the podcast.

We're getting a lot of new faces on as our team is constantly growing.

So we have a great addition this week because you wrote a very interesting item on the DC budget issue that's facing Congress right now. So let our listeners know off the bat. What is going on here

with the District of Columbia budget and how Congress plays a role in that? Right. So it's super

interesting and it's something that is left over from the CR,

the continuing resolution that Congress passed. What was it a few months ago at this point?

Or was it last month? It's hard to keep on. Who knows anymore? Who knows that?

But basically in that CR, Congress did not include language that's usually

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