What happens to Biden’s campaign money if he quits the race?
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🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In May, President Joe Biden’s campaign said it had a hefty $91 million stashed in the bank. If Biden were to end his candidacy, what would happen to all that cash? We’ll get into it. And, we’ll explain why the federal government’s plan to phase out its purchases of single-use plastics could have a sizable impact on the country’s use of plastic overall. Plus, we’ll get nostalgic for DVDs and paper checks during a game of Half Full/Half Empty! And, would you talk politics in the office?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “It’s time to stop arguing over the population slowdown and start adapting to it” from Vox
- “What happens to Joe Biden’s campaign money?” from Reuters
- “The White House Has a Plan to Slash Plastic Use in the U.S.” from The New York Times
- “FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases New Strategy to Tackle Plastic Pollution, Takes Action to Reduce Single-Use Plastics in Federal Operations” from The White House
- “What is Microsoft’s “blue screen of death?” Here’s what it means and how to fix it.” from CBS News
- “RIP Redbox, a Bad Idea at the Worst Time” from Wired
- “Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat and We’re Not OK” from E! News
- “Target will stop accepting this old-school form of payment” from CNN Business
- “How can we talk about politics in the workplace?” from Marketplace
Got a question or comment for the hosts? Email makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today |
| 0:10.6 | makes sense. It is Friday July the 19th. We made it through what a week. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, what a week. Happy Friday. I'm Amy Scott in for Ky Rizdahl. Thanks for |
| 0:22.0 | joining us on the podcast and on the YouTube live stream. It is time for our weekly happy hour episode, Economics on Tap. I think we earned it. |
| 0:35.0 | Yes, we're going to do some news. We're going to do a break. |
| 0:37.0 | We're going to play a game. |
| 0:39.0 | Lots of things happening. |
| 0:40.0 | But first, what are you drinking, Amy? |
| 0:42.0 | All right, well, mine's a little messy today, |
| 0:45.0 | because I tried to make my own like chili lime, |
| 0:48.0 | I think it's called Tahin for the rim of this ranch water so I brought a napkin because I'm sure it's going to be a |
| 0:56.4 | mess but yeah so I'm just having tequila topo chico and lime a A nice summer drink. How about you? I am being so boring because I didn't |
| 1:08.8 | have time to run out and get anything for the office, you and I to everyone's surprise I don't always |
| 1:14.7 | have booze in the office what I'm just having you know right failure as a journalist so I'm |
| 1:21.7 | about to drink this sparkling water that, you know, it's here. |
| 1:26.8 | You know, you got to do what you go to do. I'll drink alone. I have to tell you, Kimberly |
| 1:32.2 | inspires me to step it up on a Friday because tell you |
| 1:33.0 | to step it up on a Friday because she always has such |
| 1:36.0 | today notwithstanding such interesting |
| 1:38.3 | cocktails. |
| 1:39.3 | I shouldn't have gone to the trouble. |
| 1:48.1 | No you should have because now we have at least one good drink in the in the show today so you know you have to balance it out it's like when I come with an elaborate |
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