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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. Congress scrambles to fund

the federal government ahead of a midnight deadline to avoid a shutdown as Democrats demand

changes to immigration enforcement operations, such as rules to require ICE agents carry body

cameras and prohibit them from wearing masks. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street

Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues on the journal's opinion pages,

columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Kate O'Dell. Well, it's deja vu all over again,

as Yogi Berra said, or maybe you didn't say, because you can never be too sure about Yogi Berra quotes.

But after history's longest government shutdown last October and November, including

tons of canceled airline flights, inconvenience travelers, here we are again on a Friday afternoon

wondering what the heck Congress is going to do in the next several hours. Kim, you've been

watching this closely. Give us a sense of what the argument is coming down to and what's the state of play.

So here's what's happening.

There are six bills that need to be passed to finalize the rest of appropriations for fiscal

2026.

And while people are talking about how this is a partial shutdown, I would just like to note

that in fact, we're talking about about this is a partial shutdown. I would just like to note that in fact, we're talking

about 75% of discretionary spending out there. So this is not a tiny part of the government.

And of course, the reason is that the first six that were passed were the easy ones, and they

didn't represent some of the bigger agencies in government. By definition, those were always

going to happen first. These are the harder ones because they're the bigger agencies in government. By definition, those were always going to happen

first. These are the harder ones because they're the bigger ones. And they usually tend to be

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