Dawn arrives at the Capitol in Washington, as the partial government shutdown enters day 18, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019

Rep. Meng on Shutdown, Wall and Voting Reforms; How Paid Vacation Looks Around the World; Who Bears the Brunt of the Shutdown?; When 'Cat Person' Went Viral

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 14, 2019

Coming up on today's show:   

  • Grace Meng, U.S. Representative (D - NY6), talks about the new Democratically controlled House and the latest on ending the shutdown.
  • Mayor de Blasio announced a proposal to require businesses with five or more employees to provide two weeks of paid vacation. Sherry Leiwant, co-founder and co-president of A Better Balance, and Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent for Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, discuss the policy and how the U.S. compares to the rest of the world in this area.
  • Juan Williams, political analyst for Fox News and the author of What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights (PublicAffairs, 2018), examines the claims that people of color bear the brunt of the shutdown and of low-wage immigrant labor.
  • Kristen Roupenian, author of the short story "Cat Person," included in the new collection, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories (Soho Press, 2019), talks about her latest book.

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