Monday, November 17, 2025

The Washington Times’ Tim Constantine and ForAmerica’s David Bozell discuss the impacts of the government shutdown.

Let me ask this, because the shutdown has now been shut down. I’m dead serious. I’m not being funny when I ask you this. You personally — not a friend, not a story you read somewhere — you personally, did you feel the shutdown at all? …

It’s not a crisis. It’s an inconvenience. A crisis is, you know, if the whole world is shutting down, COVID was a crisis. When every business was closed and you weren’t supposed to go out and airplanes were shut down, that was a crisis. This is not a crisis. This is a minor inconvenience for some people.

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