Agree to Disagree: Jared Kushner Is On The Way Out
Infighting is the theme at the White House this week. Jared Kushner and John Kelly are still at odds, and the globalists are going head to head with the nationalists on trade tariffs.
Francis Maxwell, Host of "The Breakdown" at The Young Turks, and Nate Madden, Congressional Correspondent at CRTV, discuss whether Senior Adviser Jared Kushner will lose his battle against White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Both Maxwell and Madden agreed that it's hard to tell who will be first to go, since both have stayed loyal to the president.
Real estate software company RealPage has agreed to stop sharing nonpublic information between landlords as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice.
A legislative package to end the government shutdown appears on track. A handful of Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to advance the bill after what's become a deepening disruption of federal programs and services. But hurdles remain. Senators are hopeful they can pass the package as soon as Monday and send it to the House. What’s in and out of the bipartisan deal has drawn criticism and leaves few senators fully satisfied. The legislation includes funding for SNAP food aid and other programs while ensuring backpay for furloughed federal workers. But it fails to fund expiring health care subsidies Democrats have been fighting for, pushing that debate off for a vote next month.
Sabrina Siddiqui, National Politics Reporter at The Wall Street Journal, joins to break down the SNAP funding delays and the human cost of the ongoing shutdown.
Arguments at the Supreme Court have concluded for the day as the justices consider President Donald Trump's sweeping unilateral tariffs in a trillion-dollar test of executive power.
