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Democrats are continuing to use their leverage in the federal-funding process to confront Republicans. Meanwhile, the threat of layoffs looms for many government workers. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss how long the government shutdown could last and more.

This shutdown is not necessarily something that Donald Trump would have chosen, “but he likes a fight,” Ashley Parker, a staff writer for The Atlantic, said last night. “He thinks—publicly, gleefully—that it benefits him and Republicans po

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