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What Next | The Democrats Have Leverage. Will They Use It?

What Next | The Democrats Have Leverage. Will They Use It?

Update: 2025-09-09
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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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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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What Next | The Democrats Have Leverage. Will They Use It?

What Next | The Democrats Have Leverage. Will They Use It?

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