In This Episode
The human toll of Trump’s shutdown grows as he plans a primetime address, Democrats debate how to talk about impeachment, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez triggers conservatives by doing literally anything. Then the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel talks to Tommy about his coverage of Elizabeth Warren’s first trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate.
Show Notes:
The Shutdown
- New York Times: Trump Offers a Steel Wall, but Democrats Are Unmoved
- Washington Post: Pence and White House officials leave meeting with congressional aides with no end to shutdown
- Washington Post: Trump sticks to demand for border wall funding as shutdown drags on
- Politico: Graham: GOP wants a Democrat ‘that’s not crazy’ for shutdown talks
- Politico: Sen. Jones: ‘Not going to give wall money just to give wall money’
- Politico: Mulvaney: Cabinet secretaries looking for money to fund wall
- New York Times: T.S.A. Screeners, Working Without Pay, Are Calling Out Sick
- Business Insider: Delta, United, and JetBlue pilots are warning that flying will become more dangerous as government shutdown continues
- Miami Herald: Air travel may be less safe during the government shutdown, federal inspectors warn
- Huffington Post: Air Travel Less Safe Amid Government Shutdown, Union Leaders, Inspectors Warn
- Time: How to Deal With Possible TSA Travel Delays Caused by the Government Shutdown
- Washington Post: Millions face delayed tax refunds, cuts to food stamps as White House scrambles to deal with shutdown’s consequences
- NBC News: Prolonged shutdown could leave millions without food stamps and hit small businesses
- USA Today: Government shutdown: How small businesses are hurt
- CNBC: The best and worst ways to borrow money during the federal shutdown
- Daily Beast: National Parks Are Overflowing With Poop Thanks to the Government Shutdown
- Washington Post: Three dead in national park system accidents as shutdown wears on
- Washington Post: Park Service takes ‘extraordinary step’ of dipping into entrance fees to bolster operations at popular sites
- CNN: IRS hit by shutdown, creating taxpayer headaches
- Vox: How the government shutdown will affect tax returns and refunds
- Think Progress: This is what the government shutdown means for people filing tax returns
- CNBC: Federal shutdown means tax refunds may be delayed
- Washington Post: Violence Against Women Act expires with government shutdown
- Washington Post:‘I been eatin like a boss’: Federal prisoners served steak by unpaid guards during shutdown
- Washington Post: U.S. towns with federal workers brace for impact as the shutdown continues
- New York Times: Shutdown Leaves Food, Medicine and Pay in Doubt in Indian Country
- BuzzFeed: This Couple Was Turned Away From Getting Their Marriage License In DC During The Government Shutdown
- USA Today: Government shutdown 2019: Homebuyers with USDA mortgages can’t close on house sales
- New York Times: Toll on Science and Research Mounts as Government Shutdown Continues
- CNN: From weddings to beer, the surprising impacts of the government shutdown
- NBC News: How the government shutdown is hurting some of America’s poorest families
- Washington Post: Consequences of the government shutdown strike the private sector
- Business Insider: Here are all the ways the partial government shutdown is impacting the lives of average Americans
- CNBC: Here are 5 industries feeling the squeeze from the government shutdown
- Yahoo News: The government shutdown is hitting these U.S. states the hardest
- Axios: The shutdown is about to bite
- Fast Company: What’s the economic impact of a government shutdown?
- Bloomberg: Trump’s Long Shutdown Could Destabilize the World
- Time: Here Are Some Unexpected Effects of the Government Shutdown
- Washington Post: Trump sticks to demand for border wall funding as shutdown drags on
- Time: President Trump Says He ‘Can Relate’ to Federal Workers Who Can’t Pay Their Bills
- Politico: Trump again surfaces ‘national emergency’ as way to pay for border wall
- Politico: Trump could use emergency powers to build wall, Dem congressman says
- CNN: Trump inclined to declare national emergency if talks continue to stall
- NBC: Mulvaney: Trump offering Democrats a steel border fence instead of concrete wall
- Washington Post: As shutdown drags on, Trump officials make new demands, seek novel ways to cope with its impacts
- Bloomberg: Trump Eyes Radical Move to Escape Impasse Over Wall and Shutdown
- New York Times: How the Border Wall Is Boxing Trump In
- The Guardian: Trump is staking his presidency on the shutdown and his wall
- CNBC: How Trump’s tweet storms to rally support for the government shutdown seem to be working
- Axios: Better rest up: The president believes he pays no price for escalating inaccuracies, even ones that have been repeatedly debunked.
- Washington Post: After years of Trump’s dire warnings, a ‘crisis’ has hit the border but generates little urgency
- New Yorker: Donald Trump’s Failure to Address the Real Crisis at the Border
- New Yorker: What Does Donald Trump Think About When He Thinks About “Wall”?
Dem response
- New York Times: Trump Offers a ‘Steel Barrier,’ but Democrats Are Unmoved
- Portland Press-Herald: Collins presses for compromise to end shutdown
- Washington Post: Analysis – Here are all the ways the government shutdown could end
- Politico Magazine: How Will the Shutdown End?
- Washington Post: Congress isn’t feeling the pressure for a fast deal to end the shutdown
The New House
- Detroit Free Press: Now is the time to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump
- CNN: Ocasio-Cortez defends Rep. Tlaib’s profane impeachment comments
- Washington Post: Ocasio-Cortez jabs GOP’s ‘faux-outrage’ over congresswoman’s profane impeachment remark
- CNN: The GOP’s outrage over Rashida Tlaib is absurd – Op-Ed
- The Atlantic: The Trumpification of Political Discourse
- Vox: Impeachment of the president, explained
- Washington Post: Pelosi tamps down talk of impeachment
- CNN: House Democrat reintroduces impeachment articles against Trump
- NBC News: Democrats hedge on Trump impeachment after inflammatory remarks
- New York Times: The People vs. Donald J. Trump
- New York Magazine: Republican Solidarity Will Protect Trump From Impeachment
AOC
- New York Times: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dancing Video Was Meant as a Smear, but It Backfired
- Vox: Conservatives’ obsession with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s high school, explained
- Slate: Why Conservatives Are So Obsessed With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s High School Nickname “Sandy”
- Rolling Stone: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Keeps Firing Back at Her Haters
- New York Times: Boogie down, Bronx Girl
- Washington Post: Ocasio-Cortez fires back after McCaskill calls her ‘a bright and shiny new object’
- CBS News: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The rookie congresswoman challenging the Democratic establishment
- CBS News: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says “no question” Trump is a racist in 60 Minutes interview
- Vox: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here’s the research that backs her up
- New York Times: The Economics of Soaking the Rich
- Washington Post: Ocasio-Cortez wants higher taxes on very rich Americans. Here’s how much money that could raise
- Bloomberg: Ocasio-Cortez, Scalise Trade Testy Tweets Over Ultra-Rich Taxes
- CBS News: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Democrats “have compromised too much”
- New York Times: Liberal Freshmen Are Shaking the Capitol Just Days Into the New Congress
- New Yorker: The House Democrats’ Best Path Forward
- New Yorker: In the First Forty-Eight Hours of the New Congress, a Mixed Triumph for Nancy Pelosi
- Politico: Dems livid after Tlaib vows to ‘impeach the motherf—er’
David Weigel
- Washington Post: The Trailer: What we learned about Warren 2020 this weekend
- Washington Post: Iowa Democrats fill events to the rafters with 13 months left before the 2020 caucuses
- Washington Post: In Iowa, Sen. Elizabeth Warren tells a voter why she took that DNA test
- Washington Post: Before you run against Trump, you have to run against Hillary (if you’re a woman)
- Washington Post: House Democrats plan to hold hearings on Medicare for All
- Washington Post: The Trailer: A guide to 2019 and the Democratic hopefuls’ visible primary
- Washington Post: The Trailer: Welcome to the 2020 Democratic primary
- Wall Street Journal: Warren’s Swing Through Iowa Harks Back to Past in an Echo of Trump’s Campaign
- New York Times: Elizabeth Warren Campaigns in Iowa: ‘This Is How It Starts’
