Trump Tears Down The White House East Wing To Build A Ballroom
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:29.6 | The NPR Politics Podcast turns 10 years old this fall. |
| 0:33.5 | We grow up so fast. |
| 0:35.0 | And to celebrate, we are doing a live show later this month. That's right, a live show with a live audience and you can be a part of it. Come join me and some of the other voices you hear every day in person in Washington on Thursday, October 30th. You can find information on tickets and more at NPR.org slash politics live show. Again, npr.org slash politics live show. All right, |
| 0:58.0 | here's today's show. Hi, this is Casey from Chicago, Illinois. I'm currently on my layover at the |
| 1:05.5 | Madrid airport after finishing the Camino de Santiago, a 500mile walk across Spain after taking the bar exam this summer. |
| 1:14.4 | This podcast was recorded at 12.35 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, October 23rd, 2025. |
| 1:21.5 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll probably be home and I'll be starting my new job as a public defender. |
| 1:30.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 1:35.2 | Congratulations, those are two very big accomplishments. |
| 1:38.2 | That is an overachiever that does not take breaks. |
| 1:40.8 | Let me walk 500 miles after passing the bar. |
| 1:43.0 | After a day, I was going to say, I've had friends who were studying for the bar that did not look like people who could walk 500 miles afterwards. I think you're just supposed to let your brain melt. Anyway, hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, |
| 2:01.1 | senior political editor and correspondent. And today on the show, we're going to be talking about |
| 2:05.1 | a different kind of home renovation. You probably hear the beautiful sound of construction |
| 2:10.3 | to the back. You hear that sound? Oh, that's music to my ears. I love that sound. That, of course, |
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