In the less than two months since Donald Trump took office, he has upended decades of foreign policy by targeting the country's allies. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss the effects of his policies in the U.S. and across the globe. Meanwhile, Congress averted a government shutdown on Friday evening, passing a bill that will fund the government through September. Although Chuck Schumer of New York rallied enough votes for the bill, some Democrats now say that the minority leader capitulated to Trump. Especially among House Democrats from districts that the president carried in the election, 'they feel as though he kind of left them out to dry,' Laura Barron-Lopez said last night. Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Laura Barron-Lopez, a White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour; Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch; and David Sanger, a White House and national-security correspondent...
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