Where the fractured GOP goes from here

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Two prominent Republican representatives announced they won’t seek reelection at the end of their terms in Congress. We’ll get into the future of the GOP, as former President Donald Trump continues to drive a wedge in the party’s identity. Also, how the verdict in a case involving the National Association of Realtors could upend the way we buy and sell homes. Plus, a breakthrough gene therapy treatment is allowing some deaf children to hear for the first time. And, coming clean about hotel showers.

Here’s everything we talked about:

- “House GOP’s Israel-IRS bill could add more than $26 billion to deficit: CBO” from The Hill

- “US jury finds realtors liable for inflating commissions, awards $1.78 bln damages” from Reuters

- “Thanks to a Missouri jury, how we buy and sell homes may change” from Marketplace

- “After Losing High-Profile Verdict, Realtors Group Hit With Larger Lawsuit on Agent Commissions” from CoStar

- “Republicans Kay Granger, Ken Buck announce they won’t seek reelection” from CNBC

- “Buck says GOP is ‘lying to America’ and he won’t run again” from Roll Call

- “Deaf since birth, some children in China can hear after gene treatment” from MIT Technology Review

- “We’ve Used Showers for Centuries. Why Can’t Hotels Make Them Easier?” from The Wall Street Journal

Got a question for the hosts? Leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART or email us at makemesmart@marketplace.org.

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0:00.0	All right, you ready?
0:01.6	Yeah, let's do it.
0:03.0	All right, Jelle, let's go.
0:05.2	She was one step ahead of you.
0:09.7	Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:11.2	Welcome back to Make Me Smart,
0:12.5	where we make today make sense.
0:14.8	I'm Kai Rosal.
0:15.6	Thanks for joining us on this Wednesday November the first today.
0:19.9	Yes, today is the day like any other day, any other Wednesday.
0:24.7	When we're going to do some news and then some smiles
0:26.9	and then let you go on about your merry way.
0:29.6	So let's get into it.
0:30.8	Kai, why don't you go first?
0:32.8	I'll go quick.
0:33.4	Mine's a teeny bit of a rant and a god really, Mr. Speaker.
0:38.6	So as if you follow the news, you know that the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,
0:44.5	from Louisiana, the new speaker, has decided to put on the floor a relief bill for,
0:51.2	not a net relief bill, an aid bill for Israel to the tune of 14-ish billion dollars.
0:56.9	Maybe it's 12.
0:57.5	Do you know off top of your head somewhere between 12, 13, 14, 14, thank you very much.
1:03.2	I should have gone off my gut.
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