Episode

A tied vote, a stalled reconciliation package, and big questions about how laws actually get finished

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The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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May 18, 2026

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648

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Summary

Congress is wrestling with the big questions, but it’s the details that are slowing everything down. That tension between ambition and execution shows up across the agenda and it’s shaping what happens next. Here to bring us to speed on the details is WTOP's capitol hill correspondent, Mitchell Miller. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .