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A deeply entrenched partisan divide has shut down the federal government of the United States, for what is now the longest duration in our history. The Republican leadership has claimed repeatedly that it was easy for the Congress — in their view, the Democrats — to avoid this, and also is easy to end it.

John Thune, Senate majority leader, said on the Senate floor: “Republicans remain united around a clean, nonpartisan funding extension … simple and clean .”

But it turns out that this resolution is actually quite dirty. And it’s gotten even dirtier as the shutdown has dragged on. Saturday marked a new milestone in callous disregard for a large portion of the electorate whe

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