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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and

Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now, here's

Armstrong and Getty.

Thank you. Now, as the president defends his tariffs over on Capitol Hill, the government is engine closer to a shutdown.

After Senate Democrats announced they will not support the House.

And I don't want to lose the whole audience.

I don't want to lose a whole audience. My only question on the whole shutdown is,

who's this for? Is it just,

are there people that care about these shutdown conversations where they talk about it

endlessly and write about it endlessly? And then nothing ever happens. And even if

something does happen, it's for a couple hours.

And nobody ever remembers it.

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