What the Shutdown Is Really About
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So we are officially in a government shutdown. Democrats and Republicans have not been able to come to agreement, or nowhere near, as I say this, coming to an agreement, about how to fund the government. The nature of this shutdown, people had lots of ideas over what, if it happened, it should be about. Should Democrats demand concessions on tariffs? Should it be about authoritarianism?
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