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From unthinkable to politics as usual: The government shutdown story

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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How the 1980 FTC Shutdown Began

Meghna asks what changed and Mike Davis explains Benjamin Civiletti's legal opinion and the FTC funding cutoff that created the first modern shutdown.

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