Weekly Roundup: October 1st

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Congress kept the government open but Democrats are still working out how to pass the two major pillars of the Biden agenda. And the president's approval rating has somewhat recovered as the public thinks less about Afghanistan, but the midterms could be bad for Biden if Congress stalls out.

This episode: White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, acting congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	This is Francesca, calling from New Jersey, where I just sent Aisha a photo I took of a Zonky,
0:06.1	the offspring of a zebra and a donkey, who lives at a local farm. This podcast was recorded at
0:13.3	It is 106 pm on Friday, October 1st, 2021.
0:18.9	Things may have changed by the time you hear this. All right, here's the show.
0:23.6	People may not know this, I am very fascinated with those types of like frosts, things like
0:32.4	a polar bear and a grizzly bear. They can get together. So it's like either a pizly or a roller
0:38.4	at roller bear. What would you get if you combined a Democrat and a Republican? I don't know.
0:43.8	But that's an elephant and a donkey, right? A donkey? A donkey or something. Okay.
0:49.7	Send us that photo, please. All right, I will tweet out a picture of the Zonky. Hey there, it's the
0:56.0	MPR Politics podcast. I'm Aisha Roscoe. I cover the White House. I'm Deirdre Walsh. I cover
1:00.9	Congress. And I'm Dominican Montenoro, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. This week,
1:05.5	Congress was going to act on infrastructure and then it was also supposed to be acting on climate,
1:12.9	maybe some social programs. There was also this need to fund a budget and oh yeah, there's also
1:18.8	the debt ceiling. There were all of these things that needed to happen. But only really one of those
1:26.0	things happened this week, Deirdre. Can you talk about what did get done? They funded the government.
1:33.6	We are not about to have a government shut down. The government is open. Congress did pass a
1:39.6	short-term funding bill funding the government through December 3rd. They actually had a photo op
1:46.5	on Capitol Hill yesterday congratulating themselves for not shutting down the government, which I
1:50.5	thought was kind of odd. So they passed this stopgap funding bill. It also includes some emergency
1:55.8	money for natural disasters like Hurricane Ida and for Afghan resettlement programs. But of course,
2:02.8	because they gave themselves another deadline, we'll be having this conversation on December 3rd.
2:08.9	Well, and so that's through December 3rd. They at least funded the government. But there was also
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