The only viable Democratic answer to President Trump’s power grab is to block federal budget appropriations bills in the Senate and shut down the federal government after September 30, New York Times columnist Ezra Klein wrote Sunday (“It’s Simple: Stop Enabling Trump’s Power Grab.”)

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