JD FOSTER: Five Essential Lessons From Shutdown
1 sourceUpdated Jul 1, 2026
Many lessons appear from the longest government shutdown on record, some obvious, some subtle. The most obvious is that the party with the strongest hand always wins unless the hand is badly misplayed. Republicans had…
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