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call your senator segment, where she takes my questions and yours.

But we want to set it up a little by doing a short background briefing for you and me

alike, because I'm confused too, about this breaking news in the last half a day or so

that President-elect Trump and Elon Musk intervened at the last minute to kill a bipartisan

government spending bill for the next three months that House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic

leaders had agreed on. This might also even sink Mike Johnson's ability to continue as

speaker, and many government agencies now may shut down when the money officially runs out tomorrow

night. So what just happened here and why? With us for a few minutes now is Kadiah Goba,

politics reporter for Semaphore. Kadiah, thanks so much for hopping on with us on short notice today.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you for having me, Brian.

Happy to be here.

So Trump posted that any Republican who votes for the spending bill should be primaried,

and, quote, we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn't give Chuck Schumer

and the Democrats everything

they want. What Democratic priorities is he trying to block? So Democrats and Republicans in Congress

had agreed on a stopgap to fund the government until March 14th. There were some provisions

in there like disaster funding, one year, one year extension

on the farm bill. There was a pay raise put in there as well. Well, it's a complicated procedure,

but the assumption was that Congress, once this passed, would get a pay raise, a little over 3%,

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