Banging Our Heads on the Debt Ceiling
On this week’s The Cause Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman untangle the vacation weekend debt-ceiling deal between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R–Calif.) and contemplate the current sentencing of Oath Keepers chief Stewart Rhodes for his function within the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
0:36: President Biden and Speaker McCarthy announce debt-ceiling deal
17:32: Oath Keepers chief Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in jail.
29:24: Weekly Listener Query
42:36: Ron DeSantis formally publicizes his run for the White Home
47:40: This week’s cultural suggestions
Talked about on this podcast:
“Debt Ceiling Deal Curtails GOP-Backed Finances Cuts, Spending Caps,” by Eric Boehm
“Debt Ceiling Invoice ‘Locks within the Inflated Spending Ranges of Latest Years,'” by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
“3 Causes Why The Debt-Ceiling Debate is Filled with Malarkey,” by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg
“Why We Want Much less Debt, and Quick!” by Nick Gillespie and Mark McDaniel
“What We Speak About When We Speak In regards to the Debt Ceiling: Nothing A lot, Sadly,” by Nick Gillespie
“Stewart Rhodes Will get 18 Years After the DOJ Reiterates a Conspiracy Declare That Jurors Rejected,” by Jacob Sullum
“Punishing Rioters Is Clever. Bogus ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Prices Are Not.” by J.D. Tuccille
“Storks Do not Take Orders From the State,” by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
“Can Governments Improve Birthrates? Ought to They?” by Nick Gillespie
“My Dad and mom Have been ‘Anyone Else’s Infants’—And Mannequin Individuals,” by Nick Gillespie
Let It Breed by Nick Gillespie
“The Actual Class Warfare Is Child Boomers vs. Youthful Individuals,” by Nick Gillespie
“DeSantis Proclaims Too-On-line Marketing campaign in Most On-line Manner Possible,” by Eric Boehm
“Succession Is a Darkly Comedian Warning In regards to the Switch of Generational Energy,” by Peter Suderman
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Audio manufacturing by Ian Keyser; assistant manufacturing by Hunt Beaty.
Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve
