What We Talk About When We Talk About Government Shutdowns

The government might shut down next week partly because Donald Trump refuses to help Dreamers without getting his wall or other policy changes -- Elise Foley reports from the Capitol. The Trump administration wants work requirements for medicaid, so we talked to health policy reporter Jonathan Cohn about dog whistles. The federal government stood aside as states legalized marijuana under the Obama administration, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions is changing THAT. Nick Wing explains how the Justice Department is re-asserting its authority on weed. And Jessica Schulberg reports that some clever lawyers are using Donald Trump's foolish statements to try to spring people from GITMO. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Government Shutdowns is an episode from So That Happened by So That Happened.

This episode is 45:47 long.

This episode was published on Jan 11, 2018.

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