AUSTIN (KXAN) — The government shutdown has now stretched into a second week.

KXAN's Grace Reader spoke with Austin Mayor Kirk Watson to find out how city leaders are impacted by the shutdown and what they're doing to handle the situation.

Read an edited transcript of the conversation below or use the video player above to listen.

GRACE READER: This is a day-by-day changing scenario, but we are also tracking what's happening at the federal level and with the federal shutdown.

I'm wondering, with your involvement with the Conference of Mayors, how cities are discussing what roles they may need to play in stepping in.

KIRK WATSON: Well, the cities have talked about not just this, but a number of issues related to the sort of chaotic feel that we have coming from the federal government—t

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