‘This Is the Game of Chicken’ That We Get Used To: John Avlon on Speaker Johnson Giving Congress Next Week Off Amid Shutdown

RUSH EXCERPT:
AVLON: "This is this is the game of chicken that we get used to. But that‘s what normalizes it. We can‘t normalize is the idea that we‘re post rule of law in America, but we can‘t normalize is the idea that you will you know, they‘re they‘re implementing project 2025. After the president disavowed it during the last campaign. And of course, they‘re going to do it. So, you know, when people tell you who they are, believe them, they‘re going to they‘re going to make those cuts. It‘s not conservative, by the way. This is this is."