The US Attorney General Pam Bondi has been accused of weaponising the country's leading law enforcement agency. During a tense exchange with a Senate Judiciary Committee Donald Trump's top legal official has been grilled on the legal justification for deploying National Guard troops into Democratically led cities. There's been questions too over whether she's using her position to pursue the US President's political opponents.

USSC Director of Research Jared Mondschein spoke with ABC's The World Today on the potential consequences of the US Government shutdown.