Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of Your Wrong with Molly Hemingway,

Editor-in-Chief of the Federalist and David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to write

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Molly, how are you holding up? How are you holding up with this shutdown? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, we're in, we're in, we're in the middle of a shutdown.

I like situations where it's win-win for what you're working on.

And I was thinking about how for Trump in particular, but Republicans in general, this is a total

win-win situation.

Either they were not going to have the government shut down by Democrats,

or if they did, they had a whole plan of fun things to do once the government shuts down.

Things you can permanently end in government only by means of shutdown.

So Russ, the head of the Office of Management and Budget,

I think he was viewing this as,

well,

wouldn't be the worst thing if you shut us down

because then we can do other things.

What are you thinking about it?

Oh,

I always like a shutdown.

It's just,

it's just Kabuki theater, usually, right Uh, federal workers, non-essential federal workers. Is government the only place where there are hundreds of thousands of non-essential workers? I think so. Um, they take some time off. They come back to back pay and, you know, we all go back to what we were doing.

I think this one could be better for Republicans.

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