Why Congress could sleepwalk into a shutdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : The White House announced Biden is nominating Dafna Rand as assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor and Corey Tellez as assistant Treasury secretary for legislative affairs.
23% : "They've released the genie out of the box," Trump said of Democrats and law enforcement under the Biden administration, which he accuses without evidence of targeting him for political reasons.
20% : During testimony before the Democrat-led panel, the former Trump Cabinet official was asked about reporting in Karl's previous Trump book, "Betrayal," which revealed that Mnuchin and other Cabinet officials (including Secretary of State MIKE POMPEO) discussed invoking the amendment after the Capitol riot.
16% : DEMOCRACY WATCH -- Trump openly mused about the authoritarian prospect of weaponizing law enforcement to go after his political enemies in a second term, though an aide later walked it back and said Trump was just trying to make a point about his own treatment.

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