What Next - The Democrats Have Leverage. Will They Use It?
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
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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| 1:06.4 | Hey, Congressman, how you doing? |
| 1:08.8 | Good. Hello, Mary. |
| 1:14.6 | When I got Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin on the line yesterday, I got to say, he sounded a lot more chipper than I expected. We last |
| 1:20.8 | talked back in November, right after President Trump's election. Like a lot of Dems, he was in |
| 1:26.4 | what the hell just happened mode. He said he was reading |
| 1:29.3 | a lot of history. Raskin represents the D.C. suburbs, which means since we last spoke, a whole |
| 1:36.2 | lot of his constituents have been doged out of work, and now they're feeling the National Guard |
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