What is the subject in the object clause?

Question

A sentence in this the web page confused me.

What we have in this new administration is for the first time in a very long time is a government that’s not divided.

Maybe we can break the sentence down as below

The root structure: "A is that B" (here A is a subject clause, B is a object clause.)

A = What we have in this new administration

B = for the first time in a very long time is a government that’s not divided.

(for the first time in a very long time is modifier, B can be shorted as is a government that’s not divided.)

My problems are clear:

1. no subject in B----is a government that’s not divided.

2. how to explain that’s not divided?

Answer 1

First of all you should understand this is reported speech, and so it's a written version of what someone said, possibly in an interview where they didn't have time to prepare what they were going to say. The second "is" in the sentence is not grammatical, but nevertheless people do talk this way. So you should become familiar with these kind of common, trivial errors.

I expect if this person had time to organize his thoughts, he would have instead said something like this:

[For the first time in a very long time] [in this new administration] we have a government [that's not divided].

Both "for the first time in a very long time" and "in this new adminstration" are adverb phrases that modify "have". "That's not divided" is an adjective phrase that modifies "government".

"A government that's not divided" means that Republicans have control of both houses of the United States legislature and the Presidency. Also, the Supreme Court (the Judicial branch) may soon have a conservative majority.