{"podcast":{"title":"Heritage Explains","slug":"heritage-explains-800789","podcast_index_feed_id":800789,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/7179216/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/heritage-explains--7179216","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/50b0ea569e16ffcfe238bfdfdfb72351.jpg","author":"The Heritage Foundation","episode_count":479,"summary":"A podcast that explains major policy issues at a 101 level. Experts from America's leading public policy organization break down major news stories and policy debates raging in culture and Congress alike.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T08:18:43.457108+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heritage-explains-800789"},"episode":{"title":"Getting More out of Budget Reconciliation | Dan Kowalski","slug":"getting-more-out-of-budget-reconciliation-dan-kowalski","published_at":"2026-04-22T08:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heritage-explains-800789/getting-more-out-of-budget-reconciliation-dan-kowalski","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heritage-explains-800789","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/getting-more-out-of-budget-reconciliation-dan-kowalski--72971013","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72971013/04049b54_b5aa_2d25_2c17_baa37f2cd6de.mp3","summary":"The US House and Senate are storied institutions and packed with traditions and procedures like these. Some, like the fabled “candy desk”, are whimsical artifacts of history. Others are more central to the way that government works, and one such is the Budget Reconciliation process. This is a unique mechanism for passing budget and finance related legislation in the House and Senate. In the wake of Democrats refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security, reconciliation is back in the news. Here to talk about why and what we’d like to see happen is Dan Kowalski, Director of the Grover M Hermann Center for the Federal Budget here at the Heritage Foundation. Email us with thoughts, questions, or suggestions: HeritageExplains@heritage.org Rob Bluey on X: https://x.com/RobertBluey The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/","meta_description":"The US House and Senate are storied institutions and packed with traditions and procedures like these. Some, like the fabled “candy desk”, are whimsical a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":802,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/heritage-explains-800789/episodes/getting-more-out-of-budget-reconciliation-dan-kowalski/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heritage-explains-800789/getting-more-out-of-budget-reconciliation-dan-kowalski.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}