Episode 514 - "What Are We Even Doing Here?" (w/ David Dayen)

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Executive editor of The American Prospect David Dayen returns to Bad Faith to explain the government shutdown and how Democrats are doing their darnedest to be the worst resistance party in the world. How is it that Trump seems to have infinite power when Biden, during his trifecta, had none? Did Trump really just do what we were told is impossible: overrule the parliamentarian? Why are Democrats making this a fight about healthcare rather than the fact that the GOP has already effectively shut down the government through their DOGE activities? And why should we be very very scared of OMB director Russell Vought?

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0:43.8	I'm glad to be joined again on Bad Faith podcast by David Dan.
0:48.7	He is the executive editor at the American Prospect.
0:51.7	Welcome back to Bad Faith.
0:53.3	Thanks for having me, Brie. All right. So we are
0:56.6	recording on Tuesday the 30th, which is the deadline for the federal government shutdown. This has
1:03.7	been sort of in the upcoming perspective mirror for months now. And it feels like one of the few opportunities in a Trump administration
1:14.3	for the Democratic Party to have some leverage. And perhaps unsurprisingly, to folks who
1:19.2	listen to this podcast and are very aware of my skepticism about the resistance capacity of
1:24.4	the Democratic Party, there have already been signs that they don't have
1:28.9	quite the fight in them that one might expect them to have in this moment. With Chuck Schumer,
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