US Politics Update - May 12, 2023
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Host Carol Castiel talks with Jim Kessler, vice president for policy at Third Way and John Fortier, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute about the issues dominating the US political landscape like the showdown between the White House and Republican-led House of Representatives, which is trying to exact future budget cuts in exchange for raising the nation’s debt ceiling, ramifications of the expiration of Title 42, a Covid pandemic-era policy that kept out many asylum-seekers, and political implications for GOP presidential frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, who was found guilty by a Manhattan jury of sexually assaulting and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990’s.
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