Eye on Congress

Ayo Omojola, head of product for Carbon Health and former product lead for Cash App, explains the engineering of new fintech experiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump-first Republicans have CPAC. Never Trumpers have Principles First. And on one magical weekend, the two twain did meet, or at least met at roughly the same time. Roll Call political writers Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari unpack these two disparate political hootenannies and their implications for the 2024 elections.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As they await President Joe Biden's fiscal 2024 budget request, lawmakers are mulling the prospects for a budget resolution and issuing new guidance for earmarks in appropriations bills. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak discuss the latest timing for a budget release and how lawmakers are mapping strategy for the year ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The documentary “The Smell of Money” chronicles several North Carolina families’ fight for environmental justice against pork producers whose facilities adversely affect their surrounding land. Senior CQ Roll Call writer Ellyn Ferguson discusses the film with its writer, Jamie Berger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein and Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm discuss their proposed Bitcoin ETF and lawsuit with the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Joe Biden's accusation that Republicans are trying to cut Medicare triggered a counterattack by the GOP: that the Biden administration wants to cut benefits in Medicare Advantage plans. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Jessie Hellmann unpack the basis of those claims and the potential impact of new administrative rules for the privately run Medicare Advantage plans.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Skadden Arps super lawyer Stu Levi joins the podcast to talk about what Chat GPT means for intellectual property law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deficits over a decade will be 20 percent higher than forecast just nine months ago, and action is needed by summer to raise the debt limit, the Congressional Budget Office said in two new reports. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Peter Cohn assess the latest budget forecasts and what they may mean for the spending and debt limit battles to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It might be early in the 2024 election season, but that doesn't mean there aren't significant events, candidates, polling and topics to tune into. Nathan Gonzales, Roll Call’s elections analyst and the publisher of Inside Elections, joins the podcast to discuss why it's so important to pay attention to what's going on now.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Both parties have made their opening bids in the battle over raising the statutory debt limit. CQ Roll's David Lerman, Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley outline the political dynamics in the Republican push for spending cuts and pledges to protect Social Security and Medicare. They also assess how new members could influence spending bills in the Appropriations Committees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just when you think the State of the Union address is played out, we get one like Tuesday's: A call and response of political spectacle that very clearly defined differences in policy and approach between Democrats and Republicans, and might have previewed the 2024 campaign ahead for President Joe Biden and the GOP. Niels Lesniewski and Jim Saksa join the podcast to discuss the raucous caucus.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian Margaret O'Mara discusses how Silicon Valley has reinvented itself for nearly a century, and the forces shaping it now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The new Congress features a power shakeup on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that will change how spending bills are written. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak outline the leadership changes in appropriations and assess the political dynamics in the battle over raising the statutory debt limit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do companies achieve success and attract investors, and decide on how to center their own investments, while making a difference in the world? Can a company’s value and its values align? And, what is the plan for navigating these issues with knowledge and nuance. On this month's 'Equal Time,' host Mary C. Curtis talks with Jonas Kron, Chief Advocacy Officer for Trillium Asset Management, responsible for leading and coordinating the company's work to engage companies on their environmental and social performance. He also serves on the board of US SIF -- the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment. On the show, Kron explains a trend that is not that new. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we say “Hollywood,” it’s kind of like saying “Washington.” There’s more that makes up these places than just – these places. In many cases, the people who make things go in Hollywood, like in Washington, come from somewhere else, and they land in those places after long professional or personal journeys that start all over the globe. And sometimes those Hollywood scripts start in a place like Washington, where people toil in a variety of pursuits. Political Theater talks to three of those people today on Political Theater, denizens of the DMV, creatures of Washington, whose work just might land them in Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

House Republicans are mulling a short-term suspension of the debt limit in an attempt to buy time for a bipartisan deal. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak outline the dilemma facing the GOP as it seeks to pair a debt limit increase with spending cuts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a reliable plotline. Old, battle-hardened wrestler left for dead and in exile mounts a comeback, looking to vanquish the people who always seem to underestimate him. Of course, we’re talking about Donald Trump. Or Vince McMahon. Or both. With us to discuss wrestling in politics and politics in wrestling is Brandon Wetherbee, host of the You Me Them Everybody Podcast, founder of Recommend if You Like magazine and co-author, with Chris Kelly, of the book, The Donald: How Trump Turned Presidential Politics into Pro Wrestling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Both parties have raised the stakes in a battle over lifting the statutory debt limit. And House Republicans are promising big spending cuts while they try to protect the Pentagon's budget. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson, Paul M. Krawzak and Caroline Coudriet outline the biggest fiscal challenges of the year and assess prospects for possible compromise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lewis Cohen joins Jai Massari to discuss a new reading of the Howey Test designed to clear up regulatory uncertainty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A partisan showdown over the debt limit and Republican promises to slash spending could add up to a fiscal train wreck this year for a divided new Congress. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Paul M. Krawzak, Aidan Quigley and Laura Weiss offer a preview of the budget, appropriations and tax policy agenda for the year to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices