Congress, content creators, and Can't Let It Go

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast for Friday, January 16th, 2026.

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  I'm Miles Parks.

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  I cover voting.

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  I'm Sam Greenglass.

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  I cover Congress.

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  And I'm Danielle Kurtzleben.

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  I cover the White House.

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  And we are taping this podcast at 12.39 p.m.

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  It is Friday, so we are going to try to make some sense of another crazy week in Washington.

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  Sam, I want to start with you.

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  Congress has a deadline, another deadline at the end of the month.

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  to get some various spending bills passed.

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  I feel like the government shutdown was just yesterday, so how in the world are we back here again?

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  Okay, so to end the shutdown,

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  what Congress did is they passed three spending packages and they need to do 12.

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  The rest were just basically extended at current funding levels until this other deadline,

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  which is coming up on January 30th.

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  And now at this point, Congress has passed half of those appropriations packages.

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  and two more of them are really close, but the four that are left are...

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  really tricky, including health and human services, defense and homeland security.

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