Why government funding is in trouble
The Daily Punch
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought |
| 0:14.7 | you by Punchable News. It's Thursday, February 22nd, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. |
| 0:23.1 | Number one, where things stand on government funding. Number two, no James Biden smoking gun. |
| 0:29.2 | And number three, the IRS goes after corporate jets. All right, Jake, let's get into it. |
| 0:35.5 | We are all about what is happening on the government funding fight. |
| 0:41.1 | Unsurprisingly, House Republicans are on a different page than their counterparts in the Senate and the White House in terms of high profile policy riders. |
| 0:57.4 | And Republicans are demanding them that they be part of the fiscal year, 2024 spending bills, of course, Democrats, not on that same page. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah, and I am, these conversations are conversations to be having not on February 22nd or February 21st, but on, you know, like a week ago. |
| 1:17.5 | Every day now is of the essence as we approach the one week outmark for government funding. |
| 1:25.4 | Every day is of the essence and every moment is of the essence. |
| 1:31.1 | Here's the general situation. |
| 1:34.5 | And, you know, let's start with this. |
| 1:37.6 | Republicans in the House passed a whole host of policy riders in their government |
| 1:43.3 | funding bills in the bills that they passed didn't even pass in their government funding bills in the fill in the bills that they |
| 1:45.7 | passed didn't even pass all their government funding bills and um they you know the leadership in |
| 1:53.4 | the house republican conference i was talking to someone yesterday about this since 2010 has basically |
| 1:58.5 | done their membership a disservice in the sense that they, um, they lead them to |
| 2:06.3 | believe they are going to get victories and they're going to fight for victories that they're |
| 2:10.9 | not going to fight for and they're not going to win. Um, there's just a whole, like dozens and |
| 2:16.1 | dozens of policy riders that are that would never fly |
| 2:20.1 | in any Washington configuration that includes Democrats in power that and now we have |
| 2:26.3 | Senate Democrats in power and in control that chamber and Joe Biden in the White House. |
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