Current government shutdown is a reversal from most previous fights: Byron York

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Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said the 2025 government shutdown is a “complete reversal” from previous ones because most shutdown fights in the past had Republicans pushing for some policy, not Democrats.

York agreed with Fox News’s America’s Newsroom anchors that the White House has a lot of leverage to “stick it” to Democrats and is being smart in its messaging through the shutdown fight.

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