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Fox News Podcasts presents the Brett Bear Podcasts with Fox News Podcasts presents the Brett Bear podcast with Fox News chief political anchor Brett Bear.

A government shutdown appears imminent as Republicans and Democrats continue to spar over a funding plan just hours before the midnight deadline.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune spoke to reporters

Tuesday afternoon to discuss the crisis, accusing Democrats of using the situation to pass legislation

unrelated to the issue at hand.

This is a totally avoidable crisis, and again, we are not going to be held hostage by the Democrats for a trillion, more than a trillion dollars in new spending and all kinds of other, you know, items on their liberal wish list to include free health care for illegal immigrants in this country.

Meanwhile, President Trump announced a 20-point plan for bringing an end to the war in Gaza

during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday. Hamas leadership

has acknowledged that President Trump's plan is there but says they will have to consult with

other Palestinian factions before issuing a definitive response.

Lots to discuss this week. Let's bring in our panel, Fox News senior political analyst Juan Williams,

chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, Byron York, and Fox News Senior Congressional

correspondent, Chad Pergroom.

Chad, this is a fait accompli. Yeah, the government's going to shut down just

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