The Weeds Time Machine - Episode 1 - Debt Ceiling

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John Colan Hill is the new host of The Weeds, a podcast from Vox all about politics and policy. In his first official episode in the host chair, we're firing up the Weeds Time Machine and taking a trip back to 1965. To talk about one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in US history, the Voting Rights Act. With questions swirling around election integrity and the future of American democracy, we figured there's no time like the present to look back on it.

House Republicans are refusing to raise the US debt ceiling without huge concessions. Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains why we have a debt ceiling to begin with (and how President Biden could bypass it).

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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