How Lawmakers Are Responding to the Shutdown
The government shutdown is now the longest in history. The panelists joined Washington Week with the Atlantic to discuss the reaction of voters and lawmakers, and more.
Three weeks before Thanksgiving, “the administration chose not to find money to fund the food assistance program for some 42 million Americans,” Jeff Zeleny, CNN’s chief national affairs correspondent, said last night. “But they found money to pay the military, ICE officers and others. This choice, he added, “is starting to catch up with the administration and the Republicans.”
Meanwhile, “Democrats seem much more entrenched than they did before Tuesday.” Atlantic » noted editor Mark Leibovich. “I think they seem emboldened by Tuesday’s election.”
Join the editor-in-chief of THE AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Leigh Ann Caldwell, chief Washington correspondent at Puck; David Ignatius, foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post; Mark Leibovich, editor at The Atlantic; and Jeff Zeleny, CNN’s chief national affairs correspondent.
Watch the full episode here.
