Ramesh Ponnuru, Columnist

If Trump Wants Another Shutdown, Republicans Won’t Stop Him

The GOP didn’t prepare for the last one and took a political beating. History is repeating itself.

January 29, 2019 at 10:30 AM UTC

Ramesh Ponnuru is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the editor of National Review and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Republicans are already working to lose the next government shutdown.

On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy denied that President Donald Trump had shut down the government. The shutdown that started Dec. 22 and lasted until last Friday was, he said, the decision of the Democrats’ Senate leader, Charles Schumer of New York.