As if our government could not get any more dysfunctional, Republican leaders are catering to the extremes of their base and threatening to shutdown the government if the president does not defund a law that the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional. Essentially blackmail, this is as ugly as it gets.  We are in a sad state of affairs. 

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