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‘None of Us Knows What Is Going to Happen’

January 20, 2017 · 7:16 am ET · Leave a Comment

Politico: “Everything in Washington is a question—what kind of bills are going to come through Congress, how radically Republicanism and conservatism are going to be reshaped, what the Democratic Party is going to do in an attempt to be relevant again, how much is going to be dictated by the president’s mood on any given day, what would constitute everything going right, what will happen when something inevitably goes wrong, how much America is going to change with each day, with each minute.”

“The clock’s going to tick over to 12:01, Donald Trump will be the president, and no one knows the answers.”

New York Times: Administration, still in flux, struggles to fill key positions.

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