Name: Jonathan Capehart: 'There's a Meanness and a Cruelty' to Trump's Shutdown Strategy
Uploaded: 2025-12-05T15:35:36-0500
Description: “There’s a meanness and a cruelty here when you put all of these things together, using the shutdown, using these things to pressure Democrats to come to the table and come up with a deal.”

Dec. 5, 2025 . Geoffrey

“There’s a meanness and a cruelty here when you put all of these things together, using the shutdown, using these things to pressure Democrats to come to the table and come up with a deal.”
— Contributor Jonathan Capehart on PBS’s News Hour, November 7, 2025.