The Permanent Government

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 5, 2016

Mike Lofgren, former senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees and the author of The Party is Over and The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government (Viking, 2016), draws on his 30 years experience to explain why politicians come and go, but most of Washington remains the same.

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