U.S. Spending Bill, Heat Exhaustion, Netanyahu on New Powers

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

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Summary

The House and Senate are on radically different paths to approving the annual spending bills, setting up an anticipated September clash that could lead to another government shutdown. What to look out for as extreme temperatures cause more cases of dangerous heat exhaustion. And Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defends the overhaul of his country's judicial system.

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0:00.0	Congress approaches another deadline without agreement on government spending.
0:06.0	The House Freedom Caucus is okay with that.
0:08.5	So we don't fear a government shutdown.
0:10.1	How could culture war issues freeze federal operations?
0:13.8	I mean Martinez, that is Steve Inskeep and this is up first from MPR News.
0:20.7	With temperature soaring, so are heat-related illnesses in extreme cases.
0:25.6	Your organs are basically like frying themselves from the inside out.
0:30.0	We hear from EMTs on what heat exhaustion really looks like.
0:33.2	Also protesters in Israel warn of threats to democracy after the government
0:37.6	reduced the power of the Supreme Court.
0:40.1	Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that he is supporting majority rule.
0:44.9	It's really the question of who makes the decision in a democracy?
0:48.9	Stay with us, we've got the news you need to start your day.
0:51.6	Longmakers have left Washington and will not be back until September.
1:03.7	At which point the country will once again have just a few weeks to reach a deal
1:08.1	to avoid a government shutdown.
1:09.7	Some hard-line House Republicans say the party should be willing to do just that.
1:13.7	For example, Congressman Bob Good of Virginia speaking outside the Capitol this week.
1:18.8	What would happen if Republicans for a once stared down the Democrats and were the ones who
1:22.8	refused to cave and to betray the American people and the trust they put in us when they
1:26.4	gave us a majority?
1:27.3	So we don't fear a government shutdown.
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