Thursday, November 20, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses if abortion will block any agreement on U.S. healthcare, the economic and moral problem of our housing crisis, and a man who was arrested for attempting to smuggle two parakeets into the U.S. from Mexico in his underwear.
Part I (00:14 – 14:29)
The Looming Question: Will Abortion Block Any Agreement on Health Care?

Fight over abortion could doom Congress’s health care plans by The Washington Post (Riley Beggin and Theodoric Meyer)

Part II (14:29 – 24:35)
The Economic and Moral Problem of Our Housing Crisis: The Unraveling of Society is Very, Very Expensive
Part III (24:35 – 26:45)
Lord, Have Mercy on Those Parakeets: Man Arrested After Attempting to Smuggle Two Parakeets Into America From Mexico in His Underwear

Man accused of smuggling protected parakeets in his underwear by The Washington Post (Kelly Kasulis Cho)

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, November 20, 2025.
0:07.8	I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.1	All right.
0:14.6	Now, just remember the days ago, the big news, the big news for several days, even several weeks, was the government shutdown.
0:21.0	Now, just remember, because this is important, the government shutdown came because
0:25.7	Democrats in the Senate would not approve a clean, continuing resolution to keep the government
0:31.4	funded, and they said they would not do so because they demanded that Republicans come to
0:37.2	terms with the continuation of
0:39.6	subsidies put in during the Biden administration under the situation of COVID for Obamacare,
0:45.1	the Affordable Care Act. And so the bottom line is this. The Affordable Care Act has never
0:48.9	been affordable. All the promises made about the affordability of the Affordable Care Act turn out to be false
0:55.0	advertising to conservatives no surprise there and the democrats put in these subsidies very
1:02.7	significant subsidies against the cost of Obamacare during COVID by saying that under that
1:07.8	emergency they were necessary and the particular subsidies were timed to end when COVID was safely in the rearview mirror.
1:16.3	But predictably, that's not the way it works.
1:18.4	When government spends money, when it expands a government program, even when it expands that program supposedly temporarily, it almost never works out, to be temporary, let me just say, on the Republicans, because the Republicans won the standoff. The Democrats in the Senate, who had said they would not approve a clean, continuing resolution to keep the government funded. They eventually did that after the nation's longest government shutdown. and they did so because of political pressure.
1:45.4	The cost of having the government shutdown was simply too high, so they caved. But they did get one
1:50.7	very significant concession from the Republicans, and that was the Republicans, there would be
1:56.3	a vote on the continuation of the subsidies for Obamacare. Okay, so let's talk about how government
2:02.1	works. Big government just gets bigger. Government spending, regardless of what anyone says,
2:09.2	is really never effectively cut. Even when you hear conservatives, Republicans say, yes, we have cut
2:14.6	government spending. Generally, what they've cut is the increase in government
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