Democrats continue to use their levers in the process of federal financing to confront the Republicans. Meanwhile, the threat of dismissal is loosened for many state workers. Participants in the discussion on Washington Week with Atlantic Last night I joined to discuss how long the closure of the government could last.
This closure would not necessarily choose Donald Trump: “But he likes a fight”, Ashley Parker, a regular writer AtlanticHe said last night. “He thinks – publicly, joyfully – that it benefits him and the Republicans politically.” This, however, is “still to see,” Parker claimed.
The President also uses the disconnection as “the possibility of deconstruction of the administrative state”, Parker continued. But she added: “In his orbit there is any understanding that there could be any blow if they actually made it.”
Joining the chief editor AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg to discuss this and much more: Lee Ann Koldwell, the main correspondent of Washington in Washer; Andrew Desiderio, senior reporter of the Congress for Punchbowl News; Ashley Parker, a full -time writer in Atlantic; And Tolusa Olorunnip, a full -time writer in AtlanticField
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