***This episode was recorded before the shutdown vote. Be on the lookout for a MIMS Mini in your feeds this weekend***

The Senate is in the middle of a fight over whether to shut down the government. Republicans need 8 Democrats to join them and Chuck Schumer announced he's one of them. It kicked off a fight between members who wanted to push back against the White House and Elon musk vs. the members who wanted to avoid a painful shutdown. The question now is how do the Democrats survive if they're divided?

PLUS: Grant talks about the recent court cases reinstating 30,000 federal workers and what it means to have a government that doesn't want to govern. To help, he talks to Professor Kevin Welner, the Director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado Boulder about the future of the Dept. of Ed and education in the US.

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After making some big changes to their budget, House Republicans pass a resolution, without Democratic support. Grant breaks down what's in it and how a government shutdown could still easily happen. Plus, some new reporting from Wired Magazine shows that a shutdown might have been Elon's plan all along even if it would be bad for Trump.

AND Grant talks about the big cuts to the Department of Education that happened in a whirlwind few hours Tuesday night that could impact our schools for a generation.

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Donald Trump has spent the week dizzyingly going back and forth on everything from tariffs to Russia to supporting veterans to Elon Musk. It's been a week of 180-degree-turned-360-degree turns causing confusion and chaos. Grant breaks down the biggest flip-flops, what they mean, and what to know next

Grant also talks to Cory Doctorow, the inventor of the word "Enshitification," journalist, author, and activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (link below) to talk all about what enshitification is and how it applies to the US government now.

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