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The Big Ben Show

Will Congress Avert A Government Shutdown?

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5576 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Ben argues why Congress' worst decisions are made when they're on tight deadlines to keep the government funded.   With multiple Republican members of Congress leaving to serve in the Trump administration, Speaker Mike Johnson will now have to manage an even narrower majority. In the long term, that involves passing President-elect Trump's agenda, but in the short term that means convincing Congress to agree upon a 1547-page spending bill to keep the government funded before they go home for holiday break.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There once was a woman who lived in a shoe.

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A size too snug, but what could she do?

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But that's not where her story ends.

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she got her score into much better shape

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and relocated to a box fresh new place,

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with room to grow and a mortgage to suit.

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Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.

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Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready.

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Experian.

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Better your score.

0:28.7

Better your story.

0:41.2

You're listening to Fox News Radio.

0:42.5

I'm Ben Dominic.

0:48.9

As we close out the 2024 year, I wanted to return to something that we haven't talked much about,

0:55.4

just given the distractions of the 2024 election and everything that's gone on in this pretty crazy electoral year,

1:02.6

the assassination attempts, the switching of the lead Democratic candidate, and of course, all the different craziness that happened near the end in terms of the Kamala Harris situation,

1:07.6

the Biden situation, the Hunter Biden pardon, and everything else that's gone on this past year. And that's Congress. Obviously, this year was an interesting year for the Congress

1:17.5

because they have to navigate the electoral demands. And you had the accidental speaker still,

1:23.5

Mike Johnson, in the role of the speakership, someone who's had a pretty soft hand when it comes

1:28.6

to guiding the Republican Party through all of this. Republicans ended up only barely holding

1:33.3

on to the House majority that they have. And that's really something that they should feel

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