Eric McDaniel
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1,523 appearances
119 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3d ago
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Republicans are worried that Democrats will not cooperate on funding the government before the current deadline at the end of September.
Republicans want to go ahead and lock in current funding levels now for a few months in order to avoid an election time shutdown.
They still might face objections from people in their own party who want to use the leverage of a pre-election deadline to extract concessions for their own pet projects like reducing government spending or any number of other things.
The president cares about Congress doing one thing and one thing only.
That's passing his Save America Act.
It's an election integrity bill.
As evidenced by his speech last Thursday, the president's laser focused on the idea that there was and remains rampant election fraud in the United States.
I should say Republican and Democratic election officials all around the country say that's just not true.
But House Republicans are attaching the Save America Act to lots of unrelated legislation in order to try and force the Senate to pass it.
That won't work.
The Senate would, again, require 60 votes to pass it.
There are only 53 Republicans, only 52 voting right now with Mitch McConnell's extended absence.
Democrats don't support the bill, meaning they're not going to add to that math.
Congress is, as Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune says, bound by arithmetic.
Thanks so much.
The NPR Politics Podcast · With Graham's death, the Senate loses a key Trump whisperer · 13 Jul 2026
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I mean he's a Washington institution.
The man has touched really all sorts of different things particularly during Trump's two terms in the White House.
I'll start with his foreign policy legacy which is probably where he felt like he made his largest mark.
He was an unabashed military interventionist.
He believed in the power of the U.S.
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