Ben Ferguson: “This is a shutdown they're going to cause, even though, as…”

“Hakeem Jeffries, he was on TV about the government shutdown unloading on the president and saying, look, Republicans have behaved as consistent rubber stamps for Trump's extreme agenda. And so therefore there has to be some accountability for that. So This is a shutdown they're going to cause, even though, as you mentioned, it's clearly a Democratic shutdown if it happens. Well, let me explain what a shutdown is and why this is relevant. So the way the federal government works is the executive branch cannot spend money unless Congress has appropriated that money.” (06:57–07:05)

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