Dems Cave on the Government Shutdown
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2018
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Democrats had the high ground and they gave it all away in the shutdown fight. WHY? We try and answer that question on today's show. We get all the details of the shutdown deal with Daniel Lippman from Politico and learn how government employees are impacted by a shutdown from AFGE Policy Director Jacque Simon.
PLUS - Ana Kasparian from the Young Turks is in studio to give us a preview of Bernie Sanders Town Hall on Medicare for All!
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| 0:48.4 | Yesterday it was the Trump shutdown. |
| 0:51.7 | Today, it's the Schumer's sellout. Whatever happened to the Democrats, |
| 0:58.9 | where was the Democrats backbone when we needed it? Yep, they caved in. It was the shutdown that |
| 1:07.6 | never shut down. What do you say? Hello, everybody. Great to see you on a Tuesday, Tuesday, January 23. |
| 1:16.1 | It is the Bill Press show. And off we go with our roundup of the news of the day, most of it right here in Washington, D.C., |
| 1:24.8 | where, man, when they want to get something done, they can do it. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah, when they want to do bad, they can do it. |
| 1:31.9 | Republicans in the Senate, in the House, and at the White House. |
| 1:36.5 | Approved. |
| 1:37.1 | One, two, three, the end of the so-called shutdown yesterday. |
| 1:42.7 | It never really got to shutting down because the Democrats |
| 1:45.5 | cave before the shutdown really kicked in. And what did they get for it? We'll be talking |
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