she is the deputy dean and the department of government at the university of essex and alexandria virginia . is use as many a head of the palestine as ro program and senior fellow at the arabs center will welcome to all of you. thank you for joining us here on inside story. not come. if i could begin with you, 1st of all, we heard that it's costing his route $246000000.00 us dollars a day. how big is the financial burden on israel as it carries out this war of the is riley. ok. war authoration cost a lot. i'm not an expert on security, finding financially shows, but the, they imagine that the whole economy is stop the 10s of thousands of productive people are quoted and the deployed the long, they boulders. so the whole economy is the, in the whole have the, they is really the check and i 0 thing is of the, they already got a dollar. so it's a huge, huge brogdan is around the corner. me what, what was may be a good not to be right, repair all the big, big, big, come back with the initial period. natasha. we've heard economy as well, and uh, it's saying that the cost as well will be unlike

joining me now is natasha l lin lindstat, professor of government at university of essex and deputy deann at the social sciences at the school. so as republicans dither over who to select as their new speaker, the house is paralyzed, unable to pass any legislation. and that could have dire consequences for the war raging between israel and hamas as well as, of course, the ongoing conflict in ukraine. why can't the republicans unite on this, or anything at this juncture? >> i mean, that's a fantastic question. that's something that is a major problem for the republicans. we saw this when kevin mccarthy needed 15 votes to become speaker of the house back in january. and this is a residue of trumpism. it's an impact of the trumpian-style politics affecting the republican party where it's more about individualism, about personality, about charisma, about trying to get media attention than it is about coming together and actually governing. and that's what many experts are saying, that the republican party doesn't seem to be that interested in governing at the moment. they're more interested,

with us now from england is a professor of government at the university of essex. a very good morning, so good to have you with us, natasha. crisis averted, at least for now, that is. majority leader chuck schumer said that the american people can breathe a sigh of relief that there will be no government shutdown. polling, as i just mentioned, just shows that americans are deeply disillusioned with their elected officials. what is the perception now? do people feel that this measure is good news for the american people? >> well, i think it was crisis averted for the moment. and it was such a roller coaster. but i have really concerns about the future of american politics, as i think many americans do, as well. if we look historically since 1980 with shutdowns, we've had about 15 shutdowns. eight occurred during the reagan administration, but each of those only lasted a day. we fast forward to the trump administration, we had one of these shutdowns that lasted 35 days in 2018/2019, with a cost of about $3 billion to the u.s. economy. and this is the result of polariz

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