Playbook: “House Democratic leadership met in the Capitol for the first time in a while Monday evening, and they began to confront what many of them see as an only-in-a-Trump-presidency question: If Donald Trump loses, will he lash out and do something dramatic, like shut down the government?”
“The scenario was raised in the closed-door, no-staff meeting by Connecticut Democratic Rep. Rosa Delauro, and it’s more than a passing political hypothetical. It’s a real-life governing challenge that Democrats believe they are being forced to confront in the coming days.”
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi is working with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on how long to fund the government for after Sept. 30.”
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