Weekly Roundup: Friday October 29th

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

President Biden touted a new framework for the infrastructure package Democrats have been trying to deliver. The package dropped from $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion. Will those cuts satisfy the senators holding out? Plus, abortion rights advocates shift their message.

Warning: This episode contains some adult content.

This episode: White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Matt checking in from Marion County, West Virginia.
0:04.8	You can tell that this is the hometown of Senator Joe Manchin because every billboard you
0:10.8	see is trying to convince him to do or not do one thing or another.
0:16.6	This podcast was recorded up.
0:18.6	It is 12.49 pm on Friday, October 29, 2021, right before Halloween weekend.
0:28.5	Yay Halloween.
0:31.2	Things may have changed by the time you hear it.
0:33.9	Okay, enjoy the show.
0:35.5	So he's really living politics.
0:41.8	Can you imagine like just like being in a town where the entire signage of the town
0:47.4	exists to lobby just one man?
0:50.2	They've got to be used to it by now though.
0:52.4	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:55.4	I'm Aisha Roscoe.
0:56.4	I cover the White House.
0:57.6	I'm Tamara Keith.
0:58.6	I also cover the White House and I'm dear to your Walsh.
1:01.2	I cover Congress.
1:05.2	In the game of project infrastructure, one day you're in and the next day you're out.
1:11.6	One day you're in and the next day you're out.
1:14.3	My God.
1:16.6	And I get to be a highly cloon for one day this so I really wanted to say that.
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