Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today’s Headlines: In the ongoing government shutdown saga, the House Republicans' 30-day funding stopgap is no longer on the table, as the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, featuring centrists from both parties, is now working to find a solution. Meanwhile, at the UN General Assembly, President Biden and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy discussed the importance of global unity against Russia's nuclear weapons and potential threats related to AI and food supply. Pennsylvania has become the 24th state to automatically register voters when they obtain a driver's license or ID card. A former White House aide revealed that Donald Trump frequently wrote to-do lists on classified documents, drawing attention to their content. Finally, the United Auto Workers union, in the midst of a strike, intends to expand strike locations if negotiations do not yield significant progress, requesting minimal White House intervention. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: Axios: Centrists plot shutdown Plan B as House GOP flails on spending bills BBC: Evil cannot be trusted, says Zelensky in speech to UN NBC News: Pennsylvania rolls out automatic voter registration ABC News: Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified: Sources AP News: United Auto Workers threaten to expand targeted strike if there is no substantive progress by Friday 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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0:00.0	Today is Wednesday, September 20th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:06.5	by Betches Media.
0:07.5	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily 5 minute breakdown of the
0:12.2	headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:16.8	show there is.
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0:44.4	For our first story, we have an update on the government shutdown to be.
0:48.3	Or not to be.
0:49.3	That is the question.
0:50.8	The stop got measured that we reported on yesterday that had been devised by House Republicans
0:55.0	to keep the government funded for 30 more days is already off the table.
0:59.3	The next attempt will come from the bipartisan problem solvers caucus, a group of representatives
1:04.0	in the House that is comprised of centrists from both parties, which is meeting today to
1:08.2	discuss another deal.
1:09.8	House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries will be in attendance, so hopefully they will get
1:13.8	somewhere.
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