Today Proved How Hard It Will Be For Democrats To Pass These Huge Bills
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This episode: demographics and culture correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, and congressional editor Deirdre Walsh.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Anura from Washington, DC. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm about to officiate my twin brother, Urnav, |
| 0:05.4 | and soon to be sister-in-law Sarah's wedding, |
| 0:07.8 | which was delayed a year. |
| 0:09.6 | You're listening to the NPR Politics Podcast, |
| 0:12.7 | which was recorded at 207 PM on Tuesday, August 24. |
| 0:17.2 | Things may have changed by now, |
| 0:18.6 | but we are definitely going ahead with Ganesh Bhuja, |
| 0:21.4 | a Hindu ceremony to remove all obstacles. |
| 0:24.4 | With that, enjoy the show. |
| 0:54.4 | The conflict has been over how to move forward on both of those. |
| 1:13.1 | So, Deirdre, this is why you're here. |
| 1:15.3 | Walk us through the basics of this conflict, |
| 1:17.5 | because there's been a split between a smaller group |
| 1:20.4 | of more moderate Democrats and the rest of the party caucus. |
| 1:24.1 | So, what exactly has that tension been? |
| 1:27.1 | Well, it's certainly been a really messy couple of days |
| 1:29.5 | for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. |
| 1:32.0 | I mean, there has always been tension |
| 1:34.0 | inside the caucus between the moderates and the progressives, |
| 1:37.4 | which make up a larger number of the House Democratic caucus. |
| 1:42.7 | But the moderates wanted to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure |
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