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An Election Year Shutdown?

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A potential government shutdown could depend on House Speaker Mike Johnson. Alabama lawmakers scramble to protect fertility clinics. And amid a measles outbreak, Florida’s surgeon general refuses to demand parents keep unvaccinated children at home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, February 28th. They wouldn't mess with voters like this during an election year, would they? We start here.

0:10.0

Capital Hill hurdles toward a shutdown.

0:12.0

Shutdown would damage the economy. Capitol Hill hurdles toward a shutdown.

0:12.6

The shutdown would damage the economy significantly.

0:16.2

President Biden called top congressional leaders into the Oval yesterday,

0:20.0

we'll walk you through it.

0:21.2

She fought against Roe v. Wade. Now Alabama's governor wants a

0:24.6

bill to protect IVF. We work to foster culture of life and that includes IVF.

0:31.6

DC lawmakers have planned to their own, but will any of this bring back fertility clinics?

0:36.8

And what happens when you leave one of the most infectious diseases on earth up to a few hundred

0:41.2

parents?

0:42.2

One individual can actually spread it to 20 other individuals

0:45.6

if they are not vaccinated.

0:47.6

Why a measles outbreak has turned a Florida school

0:50.4

into a public health experiment.

0:54.4

From ABC News, this is start here.

0:57.2

I'm Brad Milkie. As a lawmaker, one of your most basic jobs is to fund the government, make sure taxpayer

1:11.2

funded agencies have the funds they need to operate.

1:13.6

There's an end date to all that funding, so if you don't agree to the next budget by that deadline,

1:18.0

you get a government shutdowns are a big deal.

1:21.6

Federal employees can't show up to work at jobs where we rely on them.

1:26.0

Others might have to go to work but without paychecks.

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