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The government shutdown continues. And we don’t look any closer to an end.

Both parties have been hammering each other on the issue of how to assign blame, which mostly consists of daily press conferences in which party leaders repeat the same talking points. They’re hoping the messages will resonate with voters, who so far have been split on who is at fault.

It’s easy to get lost in the sauce on some of these messages, so I thought I would take this week’s newsletter to walk through the biggest messaging points coming from both parties — and how accurate they are to the full story.

Democrats: Republicans want health care tax subsidies t

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