Hey, everybody. Before we get to General Hurtling, I got a few news items and programming notes for you.

For next level fans, JVL Sarah and I will be together on Thursday.

So we're taping a little late this week.

It'll be out probably Thursday evening, Friday morning, keep an eye on your podcast feeds.

Also a reminder to download our Bullwark Takes podcast feed on your podcast player of choice

for bonus content, breaking news, hot takes, etc. Because there's no next level, I wanted to pop off

quickly on a couple news items for you. The House passed a budget to keep the government open.

It was a continuing resolution with support from one Democrat,

Jared Golden of Maine. Now it goes to the Senate where it will need seven votes to pass.

This is a little bit of a sticky wicket for Senate Dems. And while I think they should hold the

line in opposition, I've already seen Chris Coons out saying that this morning. There's going to be

some legitimate countervues. So I'm going to explore that more tomorrow with Sam Stein, et cetera, but I think

that will be an interesting strategic battle coming this week. One wrinkle in this budget for our DC

listeners, one fucking enraging wrinkle, really, is the bill includes $1.1 billion in cuts to the D.C. budget. That could affect policing.

I thought these guys were tough on crime. It is going to affect access to health care services

and other public services for people that live in D.C. And here's the crazy thing about this.

It doesn't actually even save a single cent. It is just the cruelty is the point all the way down.

It is just revenge and resentment and going after these big city liberals and the D.C.

Swamp and whatever.

This money is D.C.

It's in the D.C. budget.

So it will just sit around in the D.C. Treasury rather than be used as, you know, the mayor and the

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