Thursday, January 19, 2023

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A high stakes debt ceiling fight looms on Capitol Hill, the tech industry turns to layoffs as it faces a sharp downturn, the dos and don'ts of handling classified documents,

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0:00.0	How Speaker Kevin McCarthy is using a weapon and a budget fight.
0:05.6	Congress threatens not to pay the bills that Congress ran up.
0:08.6	The US hits the debt ceiling as soon as today how loaned lawmakers have to talk their way
0:12.5	out of their corner.
0:13.5	I'm Steve Innskeep with A Martinis, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:19.9	Turns out it's not unusual for outgoing government officials to find classified documents
0:24.7	laying around.
0:25.7	I've known several people who have retired and after they retire they're going through
0:30.4	their box and it's like, whoa, how did that get in here?
0:34.0	What are the rules for presidents?
0:35.8	Also Microsoft says it'll lay off 10,000 employees.
0:38.8	How does a tech sector change as it retreats from its highs during the early pandemic?
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1:07.8	The New House majority is trying an old tactic that Republicans use against Democratic
1:11.8	presidents.
1:12.8	Congress is threatening not to pay the bills that Congress ran up.
1:17.0	Lawmakers already voted for changes they liked, such as the tax cuts and pandemic spending
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