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The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the Whole Hog Politics newsletter Subscribe Let’s start with the stipulation that the current government shutdown could hardly have been designed to be more damaging to Republican candidates in next month’s off-year gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. The White House is trumpeting another round of deep federal layoffs even before voters had forgotten about the pain from the Department of Government Efficiency cuts that hit Northern Virginia so hard this spring. And the move to punish Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) by trying to kill the New York Gateway project will cause j

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