What Next: How Biden’s Agenda Could Fall Apart

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🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Congressional Democrats are struggling to bring together their moderate and progressive factions to pass an infrastructure bill and its gigantic sidecar, a budget plan filled with tax hikes, climate-related legislation, and social spending. With the party divided, is Biden’s agenda about to hit the skids? Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer and author of the weekly newsletter, The Surge. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	With O2, connect with family and friends for less this Christmas.
0:03.7	Save up to 500 pounds on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
0:07.9	So go on, send those antler selfies and Santa emojis
0:11.4	and give those distant relays a video call.
0:14.1	Hiya, Janet and Alan.
0:16.3	Connect for less this Christmas.
0:18.1	Search O2 Christmas.
0:19.9	O2, we're better connected.
0:22.0	Plus RPI plus 3.9% 500 pounds serving over 36 months.
0:24.7	And 20th of December 2022, 36 months advice
0:26.8	by the link to our time plan up to 24 months, 18 plus credits,
0:29.0	just a few of 10 times a fly.
0:34.6	So Jim, when I imagine you right now,
0:37.3	I'm imagining you in your home office
0:40.3	with a calendar on the wall with September 27th circled
0:44.7	in like red ink.
0:46.7	Is that an accurate portrayal?
0:48.6	Yes, yeah, no.
0:49.7	It's just, it's a calendar, the size of the entire wall
0:53.6	with lots of different things on it.
0:55.5	And I just stare at it.
0:56.5	I don't even sleep.
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