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It won’t get any better: Washington faces another looming government shutdown

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It’s not going to get any better.The government closed down for a record 43 days this fall. And if you thought you’d seen the worst of Congress, it truly won’t get any better when the majority of the federal government could shut down in the wee hours of January 31st.That’s right. Lawmakers have yet to address the very issues which sparked this year’s astonishing shutdown. Some of those are legislative. Some are policy related. And the biggest problems are political.Frankly, the political ones may be the most challenging.Let’s start with the most obvious ways to extinguish a wintertime crisis...

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