Weekly Roundup: November 5th

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It is not clear whether Democrats in the House of Representatives will vote today on the two major legislative packages that represent the core of President Biden's agenda, continuing months of uncertainty. And the economy added a fair number of jobs last month, but the recovery remains uneven across industries and demographic groups.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, and chief economics correspondent Scott Horlsey.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zachary from Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:03.0	And I'm eight years old.
0:05.0	And I'm in on-camon, and that does turn fine.
0:09.0	We're so excited. We just got our COVID vaccines.
0:12.0	And then Taylor, this podcast was recorded at...
0:16.0	108 PM Eastern Time on Friday, November 5th.
0:21.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:24.0	We're off to get ice cream now!
0:27.0	Oh!
0:30.0	Oh wow! I bet that's some very tasty ice cream, particularly for their parents.
0:36.0	Yes!
0:37.0	Well hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:39.0	I'm a smakholid. I cover the White House.
0:41.0	I'm Aisha Rasko. I also cover the White House.
0:44.0	And I'm Kelsey Snalik, cover Congress.
0:46.0	So we were all expecting to see some votes in Congress today on some of the president's
0:51.0	big infrastructure and economic proposals.
0:54.0	It does not look as of now like those votes are coming together.
0:58.0	But Kelsey, it does feel like Democrats get, you know, halfway close to passing Biden's
1:04.0	trillion plus dollar agenda almost every week.
1:08.0	And then it never seems to manage to reach the finish line.
1:12.0	We're going to talk more about that in just a minute.
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