How a Federal Shutdown and New Trump Edicts are Changing Government

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The government has shut down and President Trump is withholding dedicated funds to blue states, demanding universities sign a pact to get federal funding and cracking down on free speech. We bring together a panel of reporters to sort through what is happening in Washington and discuss the ways the Trump administration is throwing out the playbook and creating new, and sometimes unlawful, norms. Guests: Philip Bump, former national columnist, Washington Post - Bump is the author of "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America" Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent, NPR Molly Ball, former senior political correspondent, Wall Street Journal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.9	Thank you. From KQED. From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:51.9	We're at a moment in this Trump administration where the outlines of the fights have been drawn.
0:57.4	And now we're seeing how the other levels of government, civil society, and regular old people like us respond.
1:05.0	The government shutdown continues. The ice raids in Chicago continue.
1:09.5	The legal and political battle
1:11.4	over Donald Trump sending the National Guard
1:13.6	into Portland continues.
1:15.2	We'll catch you up on what happened over the weekend.
1:18.4	It's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. First up, we're talking about the ongoing government shutdown.
1:46.0	We've got three-season political reporters and commentators with us to help sort through
1:50.4	the tumult of these last few days.
1:52.8	Molly Ball is former political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and author of the
1:56.0	biography Pelosi, Philip Bump's political commentator, former national columnist at The Washington Post,
2:02.2	also the author of The Aftermath, The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America,
2:07.1	and Domenico Montanaro is senior political editor and correspondent at NPR.
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