Intro

Last night, President Trump achieved a major victory: persuading both chambers of Congress to cancel billions of dollars in spending that they had already approved.

In the process, the Republican-led Congress is giving President Trump the power that it, and it alone, is supposed to have.

Guest: Catie Edmondson, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• Congress approved a White House request to claw back $9 billion for foreign aid and public broadcasting, sending the measure to the president.
• Here’s where the cuts threaten access to PBS and NPR.

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