The government shutdown is now the longest in history. Panelists joined Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss how voters and lawmakers are responding, and more.

Three weeks before Thanksgiving, “the administration has chosen to not find money to fund the food-assistance program for some 42 million Americans,” Jeff Zeleny, the chief national-affairs correspondent at CNN, said last night. “But they have found money for military payments and ICE officers and others. That choice, he added, “is beginning to catch up with the administration and Republicans.”

Meanwhile, “Democrats seem to be much more dug in than they were before Tuesday,” Atlantic staff writer Mark Leibovich noted. “I think they seem emboldened by Tuesday’s elections.”

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