Is the Social Spending Package Popular?

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The social spending package is popular, though not as popular as intera structure. Why has it been so hard for democrats to agree on some version of a social spending plan? I think the larger issue is trying to figure out what priorities that people can get on board with. And progressives and moderates, both using their leverage, essentially looks like both of them holding each other's bills hostage.

Moderates and progressives are threatening to vote down different parts of their own party’s agenda, all while a government shutdown looms. Vox’s Li Zhou explains why.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid with help from Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Haleema Shah.

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