With Big Plans And Small Margins, Can Democrats Pull Off Their Agenda?

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Progressives feel as though their job compromising on the $3.5 trillion dollar budget bill is done, while Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema say the package is still too big. Looming over it all, a chance the federal government defaults on its debt as Republicans signal they won't cooperate on raising or suspending the debt ceiling.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and acting congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Chris, and I'm here with my 9-month-old son, Quinn, who's been playing with our
0:05.7	window crank for the past 15 minutes before he goes to bed.
0:11.3	You're listening to the MPR Politics Podcast, which was recorded that.
0:15.1	It's a 2-12 Eastern on Wednesday, September 15th.
0:18.6	Things may have changed, but the time you hear this.
0:20.4	Hopefully Quinn will be sleeping.
0:22.2	Alright, here's the show.
0:24.1	Listen, there's a lot worse way to fill that between about to go to bed and go into bed
0:31.4	gap.
0:32.4	That's pretty good.
0:33.4	You never know what a toy can be in a house.
0:34.8	Yeah.
0:35.8	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast.
0:37.5	I'm Scott DeTro, I cover the White House.
0:39.6	I'm Kelsey Snelli, cover Congress, and I'm Deirdre Walsh.
0:42.4	I also cover Congress.
0:43.4	Well, it's a good thing you both cover Congress, because that's what we're talking about today.
0:47.0	Convenient that way.
0:48.9	So just to set it up, the centerpiece of President Biden's domestic agenda is being
0:52.9	drafted right this very minute in Congress.
0:56.1	Right now it is $3.5 trillion budget bill with major climate initiatives, it changes to
1:01.2	the tax code and a lot of other things.
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