Weekly Roundup: Thursday, March 16

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 17 March 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

President Trump releases a preliminary budget proposal the same day his new travel ban was supposed to go into effect. This episode: host/congressional reporter Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and political editor Domenico Montanaro. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Before we get to the show, a quick recommendation for another NPR podcast, embedded.
0:05.1	The show is hosted by Kelly McHevers, and they do deep dive stories on topics from the news.
0:10.3	Right now, they're looking at videos of police encounters. This week, they have the story of a cop
0:15.7	who got shot at how the video of the incident had a strange and unpredictable afterlife.
0:21.1	Find Embedded Now on the NPR1 app or at npr.org slash podcasts.
0:36.1	Thursday, March 16th at 3.45 pm.
1:04.3	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast here to talk about some of the week's political news.
1:09.8	President Trump unveiled a budget blueprint proposing deep cuts to a lot of federal agencies.
1:15.1	The budget came out on the day his new travel ban was supposed to go into effect,
1:19.0	emphasis on supposed to, at a day before a big diplomatic visit from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
1:25.2	I'm Scott Detero, I cover Congress. I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
1:28.5	I'm Mara Liason, I cover politics. And I'm Dominican Mancinero political editor.
1:33.1	How's everybody doing? Guten Tag.
1:37.4	The Gators Dear Mara.
1:39.1	Oh, very good.
1:41.5	I'll just say I'm doing fine.
1:42.8	Okay, thank you. Back from Pittsburgh, I'm happy to get to visit the station out there,
1:47.4	WESA. A lot of good folks.
1:49.5	You used to kind of work for WESA.
1:51.5	Yeah, they had a lot of nice things to say about Jessica.
1:53.5	All right, well, I missed them.
1:54.9	This is one of those weeks where there's so much going on, we can only cover so much fit here.
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