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Government shutdowns are Kabuki theater. And the next showing is scheduled to begin on Wednesday at 12:01 am.

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Conventional D.C. wisdom maintains that the side pushing for passing a clean continuing resolution as a stopgap to fund the government is typically the party that can make a more coherent winning argument.

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