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Trump’s ‘Without end Shutdown’
The president appears to assume “the shutdown offers him extra energy,” Jamelle Bouie says on the spherical desk on “The Opinions” with Michelle Cottle and David French. However what Trump doesn’t appear to know, he argues, are the sensible implications of retaining this going.
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I don’t understand how this ends, and what I wish to say is you’ll be able to’t have a perpetually shutdown for very sensible causes. You don’t need each air-traffic controller to stop. You don’t need — you don’t need the properties owned by the federal authorities to fall into disrepair. Like, there have been precise issues that should occur for the nation to run. And there’s some wiggle room and redundancy over the course of a month, perhaps if we’re stretching it two months. However past that, it issues that the federal authorities is operational. It appears to me that the president thinks you’ll be able to have a perpetually shutdown, and that within the president’s conception of issues, the shutdown offers him extra energy by way of some magical, convoluted, transmogrifying mechanism that nobody understands. The shutdown means the president is much more highly effective. No matter.
 
By ‘The Opinions’
November 3, 2025