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Yep.

And wow, we should be calling this episode morning cave.

I couldn't think of a good, clever way to call it that.

But that's definitely what we're going to be exposing today, the Dems, paving.

It's a very shutdown heavy show.

The Democrats or a group of Democrats in the Senate reached a deal with Republicans to end the shutdown.

And a lot of people are mad about that because what did Democrats get for this prolonged shutdown?

Nothing.

They got a promise from the Republicans to have a vote on extending the

health care subsidies that Democrats fought this over. They shut down the government over this,

and all they're getting is a measly vote that will likely fail. Yeah. And it's interesting

because you have all these like centrist. I mean, you have near a tendon opposing this and you have Matt

Aglesias opposing this. So this is not

just your normal kind of like

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