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Jamie Raskin: “I mean, here we are, they're about to shut down the government of the United States of America, something that no…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2023
I mean, here we are, they're about to shut down the government of the United States of America, something that no foreign enemy of the United States has ever been able to do, all at the beck and call of Donald Trump.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin condemns the impending government shutdown as being orchestrated by Trump to protect himself from legal issues.

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