Episode

2/5 The Senate Reaches a Budget Deal & the Coming GOP Retirements w/ Digby & David Feldman

February 5, 2021

Sam and Emma host Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon.com and Hullabaloo to discuss the stories of the week, including the Senate budget passed earlier this morning and the future of the GOP. And David Feldman joins us in the Fun Half and puts all his cards on the table.

And in the Fun Half: the false equivalency between BLM protests and the Capitol riots, the case to abolishing student loan debt, Rudy Giuliani says this 1st Amendment stuff is going too far, plus Marjorie Taylor Greene’s floor speech, and your calls and IMs!

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