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What Next - The Democrats Have Leverage. Will They Use It?

What Next - The Democrats Have Leverage. Will They Use It?

Rep. Jamie Raskin and the Democrats are considering all of their options for stopping Trump’s authoritarian agenda.

Slate Daily Feed · Slate

September 9, 202523m 5s

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Show Notes

With Republicans holding both houses of Congress and the White House, Democrats don’t have a lot of ways to stall Donald Trump’s agenda—except for refusing to further fund the government and triggering a shutdown. They already passed on the opportunity once, but is the situation now so desperate that the opposition party needs to do something—anything?

Guest: Rep. Jamie Raskin, U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives

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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.


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