The House Vote and the Hostage Funerals

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Republicans get done what they needed to get done in the House of Representatives. And in Israel, hostages are buried and painful eulogies delivered, which we read in full. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.8	Hope for the best.
0:38.3	Expect the worst.
0:40.3	Some drink champagne.
0:42.3	Some die of thirst.
0:44.3	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:48.3	Hope for the best.
0:50.3	Expect the worst.
0:52.3	Hope for the best. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast. Today is Wednesday, February 26, 2025.
1:01.2	I'm John Pudhord. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine. With me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe.
1:07.0	Hi, John.
1:08.0	Washington Commentary columnist and director of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Matthew Contennetti. Hi, John. Washington Commentary columnist and Director of Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Matthew Contonetti. Hi, Matt.
1:14.9	Hi, John.
1:15.6	And our senior editor, Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth.
1:18.2	Hi, John.
1:19.6	So, 217 to 215, the House Republicans held together with losing one vote, the vote of the egregious Thomas Massey of Kentucky,
1:29.6	not egregious because of his vote on this, but of many other things.
1:33.8	Voting against the bill, Donald Trump spending the day apparently calling,
1:38.9	wavering Republicans to push them to support the bill.
1:43.6	It's not really a bill exactly. It's sort of like
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