A budget stopgap hangover for congressional Democrats, consumer confidence slips following federal funding cuts, and the president's norm-busting speech at the Department of Justice.

Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson ...

Joining me now is NPR senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Hi, Mara. MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: Hi there. RASCOE: So let's start with the government shutdown that did not happen ...

Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson ...

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