And I'm going to press you on that because listeners of this podcast know that there's been a lot of dysfunction in Congress in recent years, and we've - this is not our first government shutdown. PARKS: Deirdre, you said the phrase unprecedented dysfunction a second ago. So it just shows you how far apart even Republicans are in the House. And even that was not enough to move through the floor this week. They started out the week, for example, with the Main Street caucus - so these are the more moderate members - and members of the House Freedom Caucus - members in that wing - more the hard-liners - got together to put together a proposed continuing resolution, as it's called, or the stopgap funding measure. And so a lot of Republicans were trying to hammer out some creative ideas this week. It seems like there's different factions of the Republican wing that are just basically breaking down over a series of issues from top-line numbers - if they were able to get down to a permanent spending plan and pass all of these annual spending bills in return - and - down to optional, in terms of additional spending, such as whether to provide aid to areas that have been struck by disasters, from Hawaii to Vermont, as well as whether to provide additional aid to Ukraine. GRISALES: There are many - many more than the bills themselves, for example. PARKS: Claudia, what are the disagreements here that are holding up all these bills for moving forward? But I think we're - you know, we're sort of preparing to cover the shutdown and wondering how long it might last and how we'll get out of it. They were, just yesterday, expected to stick around and work until they figured something out. And as of today, Friday, the House has gone home for the weekend. So we're waiting to see whether they can pass some sort of, like, 30-day stopgap bill.īut right now it's - nothing's moving. But we are in a sort of unprecedented, I would say, sort of level of dysfunction where, you know, both the House and Senate need to pass something that the president will sign to fund the government for some period of time because they just don't have the time and the space and the ability to negotiate the 12 annual spending bills. Never say never when you cover Congress 'cause things can happen, and deadlines do force people to act quickly. I don't, at this point, see how we avoid a shutdown. How likely is it that the government shuts down? That is the day that this government shutdown - we've been talking about it for weeks, if not months at this point. PARKS: And for today's political roundup, we are heading to Capitol Hill, where September 30 is getting closer every single day, guys. PARKS: I completely forgot about that till right now. What was the Trump-era story about Greenland? I can't remember. (SOUNDBITE OF THE BIGTOP ORCHESTRA'S "TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE (MARCH AND TWO-STEP)")ĭEIRDRE WALSH, BYLINE: Ooh, wow. This podcast was recorded at.ĭANIEL: Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be in Greenland working on a personal project for the next two months. And I just finished a day hiking on the ice sheet. DANIEL: This is Daniel (ph), and I'm relaxing in my hotel room in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.
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