On today’s show: Marianna Sotomayor of the Washington Post explains how the GOP’s razor-thin House majority could complicate Trump’s policy plans. Bitcoin hit $100,000, lifted by hopes of a crypto-friendly new administration. The Wall Street Journal’s Alexander Osipovich explains what that means for you, even if you don’t invest in digital currency. Rob Sheffield, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, joins Apple News In Conversation to talk about how Taylor Swift changed the music industry forever. Plus, the LA Galaxy are back in the MLS Cup, a decade on from the team’s glory days. Five years after a blaze nearly destroyed Notre-Dame, the cathedral reopens this weekend. And sake — Japan’s “divine gift” — receives a special honor.
Chapter 1: What are the key updates on Bitcoin's price surge?
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This is Apple News Today. On today's show, why Bitcoin's wild surge in price might not be good for the greater economy. Notre Dame reopens five years after a devastating fire. And Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eros tour winds down this weekend. But first, House Republicans will have their smallest majority in history when the next Congress gets sworn in in January.
That's 220 Republican seats to Democrats' 215. But because President-elect Trump has tapped some House members for cabinet roles and Congressman Matt Gaetz has resigned, there will be a few vacant seats.
So the margin will be even smaller for some period of time, which is why Washington Post congressional reporter Mariana Sotomayor told us if the party wants to advance legislation without Democrats, there's practically no wiggle room.
If they have a three-seat majority when everybody is present, they know that it's going to be really difficult for them to find agreement amongst each other on a number of policies that President-elect Donald Trump wants to get done.
At the top of Republicans' to-do list is a border security bill and an economic package to reauthorize tax cuts from Trump's first term. Lawmakers and congressional aides told Sotomayor... there's already enough disagreement on those two bills that they might wait until April when those vacant seats I mentioned get filled.
Still, navigating such a slim margin will be familiar territory for House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The House Republican majority was already very narrow with five seats. There were days that there were actually more Democrats voting on the House floor than Republicans at certain points in time. There were, as we all recall, a number of Republicans who resigned early from Congress. So literally, Johnson had to manage for several months a one vote majority.
Johnson will be judged by how well he's able to navigate the serious ideological divides within his own party.
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Chapter 6: How has Taylor Swift impacted the music industry?
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This is Apple News Today. On today's show, why Bitcoin's wild surge in price might not be good for the greater economy. Notre Dame reopens five years after a devastating fire. And Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eros tour winds down this weekend. But first, House Republicans will have their smallest majority in history when the next Congress gets sworn in in January.
That's 220 Republican seats to Democrats' 215. But because President-elect Trump has tapped some House members for cabinet roles and Congressman Matt Gaetz has resigned, there will be a few vacant seats.
So the margin will be even smaller for some period of time, which is why Washington Post congressional reporter Mariana Sotomayor told us if the party wants to advance legislation without Democrats, there's practically no wiggle room.
If they have a three-seat majority when everybody is present, they know that it's going to be really difficult for them to find agreement amongst each other on a number of policies that President-elect Donald Trump wants to get done.
At the top of Republicans' to-do list is a border security bill and an economic package to reauthorize tax cuts from Trump's first term. Lawmakers and congressional aides told Sotomayor... there's already enough disagreement on those two bills that they might wait until April when those vacant seats I mentioned get filled.
Still, navigating such a slim margin will be familiar territory for House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The House Republican majority was already very narrow with five seats. There were days that there were actually more Democrats voting on the House floor than Republicans at certain points in time. There were, as we all recall, a number of Republicans who resigned early from Congress. So literally, Johnson had to manage for several months a one vote majority.
Johnson will be judged by how well he's able to navigate the serious ideological divides within his own party.
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