Reforming, Rebuilding, Reimagining: Our American Future with Donna Shalala and Norm Ornstein

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on the future of American government with insights from Donna Shalala and Norm Ornstein.

Host James-Christian Blockwood is joined this week by former U.S. Rep. and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and Norm Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Our guests will take a long look at how government is functioning now at the local, state and particularly federal level so that they can make some bold predictions about the future. The next 250 years of American government will require reform, rebuilding and in particular reimagining ho...

People in this episode

Host: James-Christian Blockwood

Guests: Donna Shalala, Norm Ornstein

Topics covered

• government reform
• future predictions
• American politics
• local government
• federal government

Keywords

• government
• reform
• predictions
• politics
• local state federal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American Enterprise Institute

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