Sam Greenglass

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1,168 appearances 140 recordings 3 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 15 Sep

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Congress, content creators, and Can't Let It Go · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

But the four that are left are really tricky, including Health and Human Services, Defense and Homeland Security.

Okay, so these buckets that are still on the to-do list, they actually make up a majority of discretionary spending.

So the stakes are really high.

And appropriators say that they are on track except for the Homeland Security package.

And this one is proving to be pretty thorny because some Democrats are calling for it to include provisions that would rein in immigration and customs enforcement.

amid all these really forceful ice crackdowns that we're seeing around the country.

But I got to say, there is not a lot of appetite even for a partial government shutdown right now after all that we lived through back in the fall.

So what's more likely is that this DHS funding just gets extended without changes, another continuing resolution, and would kick that debate until after the midterms.

Yeah.

So the other week, a handful of Republicans joined Democrats to force a vote on an extension in the House.

And, you know, that particular measure was never going to become law.

But what it did do was recharge bipartisan negotiations over in the Senate.

And last week, you know, I was talking to all these lawmakers who were involved in these talks and they were so optimistic.

They were saying things like we're getting really close or, you know, another even said they were in the red zone.

This week, though, it was a totally different story.

You heard people saying that the talks were paused.

They're basically floundering.

And then you had President Trump, who released a health plan of his own that seemed to spiral things even further.

I just want to listen for a minute to how one of these bipartisan negotiators described the current environment.

Here is Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

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