Damian Paletta

But they were just out of time on this spending package.

So they agreed to this step gap bill it's going to probably take a little time to bump through Congress, so there could actually be technically a temporary shutdown over the weekend, although no one really notice.

And then they'll have a couple weeks to figure out what exactly they want to do.

Now, the Democrats could try to cut a deal quickly just to have some imprint on new policy, or they could go to the mat, fight over possibly the removal of Kirstjen Ohm as the secretary of DHS.

And that could be, obviously, a lot more complicated.

So Democrats have to figure out how they want to proceed here, but they're going to have a little time to do that.

This is a completely different president than in past years.

He's very at peace, ironically, being more adversarial with U.S.

allies.

And he's not going to take no for an answer.

Yeah, this is a completely different president than in past years.

He has a much different focus.

He's very at peace, ironically, being more adversarial with U.S.

allies.

His approach here is that this is his second term, he's done playing nice, and he has his

eyes on a target, which is the largest island in the world, Greenland, and he's not going to take no for an answer.

And so I think we saw most of his first year of his second term, business leaders, world leaders, trying to play nice with him, trying to convince him that there are alternatives to his hard charging tactics.

And now, quite frankly, business leaders and world leaders have to decide whether to finally stand up to him and push back.

And the question is, what do they do?

What kind of retaliatory measures can they take?