How Trump’s Epstein woes nearly derailed his spending cuts

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  I've been thinking, you know, especially since Trump came on the scene,

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  like, a news cycle lasts, you know, a minute.

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  Like, stories don't stick around, maybe for more than a couple of days.

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  But we've been talking about Jeffrey Epstein now for, what, almost two weeks?

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  How is this the thing that's stuck?

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  It wasn't on my bingo card.

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  The covering in the movie.

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  Or the year.

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  I mean, I think it has all the elements of just, like,

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  story that people can't let go of in a way, right?

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  It's like, there's a jet, there's a private island,

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  there's wrongdoing, there's a mysterious suicide in a prison.

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  And a couple of lawmakers described it to me as like a political TMZ.

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  Like people just love to know what happens next.

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  From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

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  I'm Colby Ikowitz, politics reporter and host of Post Reports Weekly Politics Roundtables.

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  It's Friday, July 18th.

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  I'm so excited to be joined this week by congressional correspondent here at the Post, Liz Goodwin.

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  Hey, Liz.

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  Hello.

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