This week on our Cato Institute podcast, Gene Healy and I host Cato’s Jeffrey Miron and Tommy Berry to discuss the U.S. federal government shutdown and the new Supreme Court term.
I thought this was our best roundtable podcast yet—a real policy wonk out on the economics of shutdowns, budget processes, ACA subsidies, Russ Vought’s plans for mass government layoffs, pocket rescissions, Lisa Cook’s firing and Fed independence, the tariff IEEPA case, and the future of “independent” agencies.
Show Notes
Romina Boccia, “Thoughts About The Impending Government Shutdown,” The Debt Dispatch, September 30, 2025.
Jeffrey Miron, “Some Libertarians Cheer When Government Shuts Down: Here’s Why They Shouldn’t,” Vox, January 21, 2018.
Ryan Bourne, “The Libertarian Experiment That Isn’t,” Cato at Liberty blog, January 11, 2019.
Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Charles Brandt, “Learning Resources v. Trump,” Cato Amicus Brief, July 30, 2025.