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Morning Announcements

Wednesday, May 17th, 2023

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Headlines:In the House of Representatives, Democrats aim to expel George Santos, but a two-thirds vote is needed. The US nears its debt limit, and Biden and Congress must find a resolution within 6-7 days. Rudy Giuliani faces allegations of misconduct, including selling pardons for $2 million, though no evidence has been provided yet. The IRS investigation reveals higher audit rates for Black taxpayers. OpenAI's CEO urges government regulation to mitigate risks in artificial intelligence, highlighting concerns about AI manipulating humans. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: NBC News: Democrats introduce a resolution to expel indicted Rep. George Santos from House Reuters: Biden, McCarthy hopeful on debt ceiling deal, US president cuts Asia trip short  Independent: Rudy Giuliani said he and Trump were selling pardons for $2m apiece, ex-aide claims  NPR: IRS chief says agency is 'deeply concerned' by higher audit rates for Black taxpayers AP News: ChatGPT chief says artificial intelligence should be regulated by a US or global agency Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today is Wednesday, May 17th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented by

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Betcha's Media.

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On Mirro Sammie Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown of the

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headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality

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show there is, our government.

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Democrats and the House of Representatives have brought a resolution to expel their colleague,

0:26.1

pathological liar George Santos from his congressional seat.

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The resolution was brought by Democratic Representative Robert Garcia of California, and it is considered

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privileged, which means that lawmakers need to vote on it in the next two days.

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However, it requires a two-thirds vote to pass, so that would require dozens of Republicans

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to support it.

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Representative Garcia says that part of his aim is to get some of his Republican colleagues

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on the record with their support of Santos following his arrest on 13 criminal charges

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last week.

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It's unclear if it has the support to pass, and it is incredibly rare for the House to

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expel their colleagues.

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It's only happened five times in history, three of which were for lawmakers who fought

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with the Confederacy, and the most recent was in 2002, for an Ohio Democrat who was convicted

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of conspiracy to commit bribery, among other crimes.

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Pretty compatible company for Mr. Santos, if you ask me.

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has continued to reiterate that the U.S. is going to hit its

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debt limit on June 1st, Chop Chop, and an agreement still has not yet been reached between

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