America’s next government shutdown could be the strangest yet
The politics of it are totally bizarre
With another government shutdown looming, it is easy to assume that this particular governance failure is happening more often. Yet far fewer shutdowns have taken place in the past two decades than in the 1980s and 1990s. While funding gaps remain relatively rare, they now tend to last longer and the politics behind them are increasingly bizarre. The next shutdown could be the strangest yet.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Nihilists in Washington”
United States September 30th 2023
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