The Debacle in the House of Representatives This Week

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The rise of Trump kind of scrambled Republican policy priorities a bit. The spending issue, which had been so consuming during the Obama years, dropped in relative importance. There are still some people who care about these issues and activist groups that are still trying to push this agenda. It seems to me like Republican speakers of the House are kind of stuck in an endless cycle of recurrence.

The 118th Congress has begun with a showdown over who will be elected House speaker. Vox’s Andrew Prokop argues that this is the culmination of a decade-long trend of stonewalling in Congress.

Today’s show was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Victoria Chamberlin. It was edited by Amina Al-Sadi and was fact-checked by Serena Solin. It was engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and hosted by Noel King

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