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What are the key issues in this week's government funding bill?
Good morning. It's Monday, March 10th. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, Greenland votes on the future of the island. Should food stamps pay for soda? And Canada's Liberal Party selects Trudeau's successor. But first, a big week for lawmakers in Washington as a partial government shutdown is set to begin Friday. Over the weekend, Speaker Mike Johnson introduced a stopgap spending bill that would keep the government funded through September. Included in the bill is a slight increase in defense spending, totaling around $892 billion, and a small cut to non-defense spending, totaling around $708 billion. The bill also adds an additional $485 million for ICE, a $20 billion cut to IRS enforcement, and an additional half billion dollars for WIC, the federal program that provides grocery assistance for low-income women and children. Here's Speaker Johnson talking to reporters in the halls of Capitol Hill about the bill.
I believe we'll pass it along to party lines, but I think every Democrat should vote for the CR. It is a fundamental responsibility we have to fund the government, and a clean CR with a few minor anomalies is not something that they should vote against, so we'll see what they do.
Why are Democrats opposing the current spending bill?
Democrats came out quickly against the bill. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in a statement with party leadership, criticized it for not explicitly protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Representative Rosa DeLauro, a top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, called the domestic cuts in the bill a power grab by Trump and Elon Musk. Here she is speaking to MSNBC yesterday.
It's a blank check to Elon Musk and to President Trump. And it allows them what I call, this is stealing. This is stealing taxpayers' dollars.
What is President Trump's stance on the spending bill?
President Trump voiced his support for the proposed spending bill, posting on social media that all Republicans should vote yes and that, quote, we have to remain united, no dissent. That's, of course, because Republicans have only two votes to spare in the House. But a number of Republicans who in the past were against these types of stopgap measures are now saying they will support it.
Typically, I am not for a continued resolution because we ought to pass our appropriation bills in time.
That's Representative Ralph Norman, a Republican from South Carolina and member of the Conservative House Freedom Caucus, speaking to Fox News.
I think that having a government shutdown now is not the proper thing.
He went on to say what's different now is the work that Doge is doing, which he agrees with. NPR has been reviewing the claims made by the Doge team and comparing them with federal contract data and has so far found that the Trump administration is overstating the estimated savings totals by billions of dollars. If some of this to-the-brink spending negotiating sounds familiar, it's because it is. Late last year, heavy pressure and threats from Trump and Elon Musk torpedoed a bipartisan agreement in favor of the smaller current spending resolution that's set to expire on Friday. The New York Times reports this time around, bipartisan talks had been underway to find a way to pass a bill and wrestle some control back from President Trump on spending issues. But Republicans ran out of time and are hoping to instead push through what they can on party line votes. Speaker Johnson says he'll bring the bill to the floor tomorrow.
President Trump has threatened for weeks now that he wants America to take Greenland, a large island in the Arctic Ocean with a population of 56,000 people. In fact, he specifically called out his intentions in last week's joint address to Congress.
We need it really for international world security. And I think we're going to get it. One way or the other, we're going to get it.
Well, tomorrow, Greenlanders will vote in what might be the most consequential election of their lifetimes. The vote, while technically unrelated to Trump's goals of territorial expansion, has certainly been influenced by it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the key issues in this week's government funding bill?
0:05–1:30
2
Why are Democrats opposing the current spending bill?
1:30–2:04
3
What is President Trump's stance on the spending bill?
2:04–4:25
4
Why is President Trump interested in Greenland?
4:25–5:35
5
How are Greenland's elections influenced by international politics?
5:35–6:46
6
What are the implications of Greenland's independence?
6:46–12:59
Speakers
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