Tommy Vietor

Let's watch.

Do you think that the firings are like really putting leverage on the Democrats more than just the whole government?

Yeah.

And the next big inflection point is Wednesday when troops will start missing their paychecks.

But Trump announced Saturday that the Pentagon is going to be moving funds around to make sure that there's no gaps in pay.

So like part of me hears this and I'm like, OK, it's really bad that Trump is doing this without Congress being involved.

The other part of me is like, OK, well, it's good, I guess, that service members are getting paid.

But also Trump is kind of giving up what seemed like this.

what they thought was their biggest point of leverage against Democrats.

But I don't know.

Where do you come down?

And Republicans keep saying, you know, whatever things we agree to with Democrats, we'll just use the rescissions process to claw back money anyway.

So it's like, I don't know what we're supposed to trust from these guys.

There's also like a bigger point, which is.

I feel this in my life.

I hear it from others.

I feel like doing this show.

This shutdown is just not commanding people's attention the way previous ones have.

And I've kind of I thought about why that might be like part of it is because the.

The drama around whether the government will shut down is a big deal.