Thursday, January 19th, 2023

Morning Announcements

Betches

Daily News, News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today's headlines: The United States is expected to hit the debt ceiling today because the House of Representatives is refusing to vote to raise it. New reports continue to arise about George Santos, who has still not resigned from Congress. Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin spoke on a panel at the World Economic Forum, where they high-fived over the preservation of the filibuster. Finally for today, several public colleges and universities are also banning TikTok from school computers, cell phones and Wi-Fi, and Taliban officials have started using the paid verification feature to acquire blue checks on Twitter. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: CNN: Debt ceiling: 6 things you should know as the deadline looms Patch: Disabled Veteran: George Santos Took $3K From Dying Dog's GoFundMe Bloomberg: At Davos, Sinema and Manchin High-Five Over Keeping Filibuster Rule Azcentral: Sinema, in Davos, says Dem push to end filibuster for voting rights bill may have been 'premature' NBC: These are all the public universities that have instituted TikTok bans Tech Crunch: TikTok rolls out its ‘state-controlled media’ label to 40 more countries BBC: Taliban start buying blue ticks on Twitter Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, January 19th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:05.7	by Betches Media.
0:07.2	On your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily 5-minute breakdown of the headlines
0:11.8	that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality show there is,
0:16.5	our government.
0:17.5	This episode is brought to you by Green Chef, the number 1 meal kit for eating well with
0:21.6	dinners that work for you.
0:23.0	The United States is expected to hit the debt ceiling today, and as has been previously
0:32.6	reported, the House of Representatives is refusing to vote to raise it.
0:36.5	Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, while taking the form of a ventriloquist dummy who
0:40.4	strings or control by Lauren Voper, says that he won't vote to raise the debt limit
0:44.7	without making additional spending cuts to things like food stamps and social security.
0:49.4	So while lawmakers still have a few months to negotiate before the country officially defaults
0:53.6	on its debt, the government will likely have to temporarily delay payments or default on
0:58.2	some of its commitments, potentially affecting social security payments, veterans' benefits
1:02.7	and federal employees' salaries, nothing too important.
1:06.2	The last and only time the US hit the debt limit was in 2011, and it resulted in the US
1:10.9	credit being downgraded for the first time in history, and even though we did not actually
1:15.1	default, it took the economy months to recover.
1:17.9	Plus, I don't know the two strikes on your debt ceiling is the best look for the richest
1:21.9	country in the world, kind of like buying a yacht on your fourth home refinancing.
1:31.5	The man who sometimes goes by George Santos still has not resigned from Congress, so we're
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