Weekly Roundup: June 4th

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🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont had asked the Labor Department to bar governors from prematurely ending supplementary unemployment payments tied to the pandemic. In an interview with NPR, Walsh said there probably wasn't anything the administration could do to stop them.

Also: Vice President Harris is taking her first international trip in an effort to stem the flow of migrants to the U.S. southern border.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Meg Stacker and I'm currently riding my bike home
0:05.5	DuBaihan, New Jersey after the second meeting of our beach
0:08.7	reads book club.
0:09.9	We're a bunch of moms sit on the beach and talk a little bit
0:12.6	about a buck.
0:13.8	This podcast was recorded at 123 PM Eastern time on Friday,
0:19.5	June 4th.
0:20.4	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:23.4	OK, here's the show.
0:24.9	I want to go to the beach.
0:29.5	I'm amazed at her like multitasking.
0:32.4	She was biking right at the scene times, recording this.
0:36.5	Well, hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast.
0:38.7	I'm a smaholid.
0:39.5	I cover the White House.
0:40.7	And I'm Tamer Keith.
0:41.6	I also cover the White House.
0:43.5	And I'm Kelsey Smell.
0:44.4	I cover Congress.
0:45.4	So this morning, I had the chance to speak
0:47.8	with the Biden administration's labor secretary, Marty Walsh.
0:51.6	And I started by asking him about the monthly jobs report
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