It's Monday, March 17th.
I'm Jane Coston, and this is what a Day.
The show that is wondering if President Donald Trump knows what sarcasm is.
Here he is speaking with host Cheryl Atkison on her show Full Measure.
I'm not understating the complexity of all this, but as a candidate,
you said you would have this war settled in 24 hours.
Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that.
That's not what sarcasm is on today's show.
The Trump administration seems to have ignored a federal court order.
And those American astronauts who've been stranded up in space forever could return to Mother Earth this week.
But let's start with Democrats who averted a government shutdown only to kick off an intraparty civil war.
On Friday,
Senate Democrats led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to a continuing resolution to keep the government open.
Democrats who supported the bill argued that permitting the government to shut down would give President Donald Trump and co president and noted weirdo Elon Musk more power to make life worse for everyday Americans.
It's a stance Schumer reiterated in a Saturday interview with the New York Times.
He said there was no telling how far Musk and Trump would have taken a shutdown.
It can last forever.
There is no off ramp.
One of the Republican senators told us,
we go to a shutdown going to be there for six months, nine months, a year.