Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 191
Blue Wave Update
“Government shutdowns should be as off-limits to budget negotiations as chemical weapons are to warfare. Nevertheless, we are stuck in one. Resolving it by going Real Big on immigration could be Trump’s Nixon-to-China, Reagan-to-the-Berlin-Wall moment in history.”
— Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), quoted by the Washington Post.
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