Trump's agenda vs. The GOP's agenda
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The science is clear. Vaping saves lives and youth vaping is at historic lows. |
| 0:06.0 | Now, acting FDA Commissioner Diamantis must fix the broken system. |
| 0:11.0 | Establish predictable scientific guidelines for PMTA review, enforce against illicit products that fail those standards, |
| 0:18.0 | and protect adult Americans relying on flavored vapes to quit smoking. |
| 0:22.9 | FDA policy must change to catch up to its own data. |
| 0:26.3 | Learn more at vaportechology.org. |
| 0:34.6 | Today on the Playbook podcast, Voterrama should finally get underway in the Senate today on the Republican's second reconciliation bill. |
| 0:43.3 | But what we're actually going to see is a sneak preview of the whole midterms debate, |
| 0:47.9 | with Dems on the attack over Iran, ICE, the White House ballroom and lots more, |
| 0:52.6 | and Republicans fighting a rearguard action to |
| 0:55.5 | defend Donald Trump's least popular policy moves. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha |
| 1:00.9 | Burns. It is Thursday, May 21st. Dash is going to be cold and rainy in D.C. today after |
| 1:08.6 | the heat wave, are you happy? I actually love the rain. It was very peaceful, sleeping too, last night. However, |
| 1:15.6 | I am not sleepy. I am not deterred because it feels like midterms week, Jack. |
| 1:21.0 | Like everything about, I'm like, are we, is this November? Like, we had a mini super Tuesday |
| 1:25.8 | this week. We've got endorsements flying around. |
| 1:29.3 | We've got messaging wars. |
| 1:30.3 | We have all of, wow, it feels like we are like really in election season right now. |
| 1:35.3 | And here's the thing I was looking at this last night. |
| 1:37.3 | Although there is officially, like, what is it, five and a half months to go, actually voting starts in some of the key states, Minnesota, Virginia being two particular examples, in less than four months. |
| 1:47.8 | That is really not very far away at all for these guys to be making their arguments. |
| 1:52.4 | I know, right? Less than four months. So, you know, these debates are now playing out before us. |
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