The Government Shut Down

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If congress can't agree on a plan to avert a partial government shut down by friday, that will leave about 800 thousand government workers without a pay check. Ly, why does it feel like every few years we end up here where we're talking about the government shetting down? It is something, i think, that's gotten worse overtimed congress has always procrastinated,. But this issue has gotten worse.

Moderates and progressives are threatening to vote down different parts of their own party’s agenda, all while a government shutdown looms. Vox’s Li Zhou explains why.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid with help from Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Haleema Shah.

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