If you listen carefully, you can hear two distinct sounds — one of anxiety, the other of laughter — coming from Washington, D.C. Each is muffled but not very well.
The first is of timorous Democrats promising to keep the federal government shut until Republicans add $700 billion more to the national debt. They want to hang tough, but they know they are between a rock and a hard-left place.
The second comes from President Donald Trump and Republicans stifling guffaws as they watch their opponents present them a political gift that will allow them to ax government bureaucrats faster than they’d hoped.
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The shutdown began at midnight on Oct. 1, following the last tick of the clock in fiscal 2025, because Democrats refused any money
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