Perhaps you’re aware that the federal government was expected to shut down at midnight, but the No. 1 related question in the minds of the public isn’t likely to change: How will we know?

How can we distinguish, to put it another way, America after midnight from, you know, 2025 generally?

Because it’s shaping up strictly as a matter of semantics, with a dynamic first bid by Pennsylvania’s own John Fetterman (D-Hoodie) of the United States Senate, who said that despite Republican refusal to restore health care benefits eliminated by their Big Beautiful Boondoggle Bill, “I am unwilling to vote to shut down our government and unleash massive national chaos.”

Oh, so that’s it. As of 12:01 am on October 1st, we were to transition from massive national chaos to massive national chaos “unleash

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