Two months into his second term, President Trump is destabilizing the world order.

The U.S. now treats adversaries like allies and allies like adversaries.

And Trump's unpredictability is causing economic turmoil that threatens his popularity and your 401k.

The Democrats, meanwhile, struggled to find ways to challenge him.

Tonight, making sense of our strange new reality.

Next.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

If you asked me two months ago, who I thought Donald Trump would be fighting with come March,

I would definitely not have answered Canada, Panama,

or Denmark, because that would make no sense. But it is March, and Trump is threatening the

sovereignty of all three countries, countries that are notable because until January, they were

our friends and allies. I want to talk about this and about Trump's apparent sympathy for Russia tonight

with Laura Barone Lopez, the White House correspondent for the PBS News Hour. Stephen Hayes is

the editor of the dispatch, and David Sanger is a White House and National Security correspondent

for the New York Times. Thank you all for joining me. We've got a lot to talk about.

Laura, you're going to explain the averted shutdown, just averted this evening. Many Democrats

think that Chuck Schumer, Democratic leader, capitulated to Donald Trump. Can you explain what happened and what the fault lines here

are within the Democratic Party?

Yeah, so Congress averted a shutdown until September or through September. And a minority

leader, Chuck Schumer, essentially said that he felt like Democrats would take the blame if they voted against the government funding bill, that he didn't want to exert more pain on federal workers.

And so he rallied enough votes, essentially, to support this bill that Democrats had no part in shaping or forming.

Republicans control all the government.

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