Would a Govt Shutdown Fight Authoritarianism?
Democrats in the Senate are debating whether to allow the government to shut down when it runs out of funding later this month.
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
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Show Notes
Democrats in the Senate are debating whether to allow the government to shut down when it runs out of funding later this month.
On Today's Show:
Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent at Vox and the author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World (PublicAffairs, 2024), talks about what's at stake in the debate over whether to go along with the Republican plan to fund the government or withhold their votes in protest.