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Lawfare Daily: The Law of the Shutdown
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In this episode, Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow at Brookings and contributing editor at Lawfare , sits down with Nick Bednar, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and contributing editor at Lawfare , and Sam Berger, Senior Fellow on the Federal Fiscal Policy team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. They discuss why government shutdowns happen, what determines what functions keep operating, how the Trump administration is using this shutdown to pursue novel cuts to the federal workforce, and how to think about the shutdown in the broader context of the Trump administration’s exercise of executive power. For more on this topic, see the following articles: In…