shutdown. Shutdown averted and Joe Biden bows to the left one more time.

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what lessons do you draw from the drama around this continuing resolution, which Mike Johnson ended up getting through the House, lost several dozen Republicans, got the Democrats

on board and sails through the Senate.

Is this just sort of a typical, you know, these things happen and it happened for a long time

when you get year-end bills like this or debt limit debates?

You always have all this brinksmanship and you'll have some failures,

typically before you finally find a formula that succeeds, or is this more portentous about what

the relationship could be between Donald Trump and his Republican caucus and how choppy

that could be in the new year. I'm leaning towards the former.

A lot of these brinksmanship spending fights, whether it's, there's going to be a government

shutdown or we're going to hit the debt ceiling, not all of them turn out like the

coverage of the Y2K bug in late 1999, but they kind of, often the talk of the consequences

are significantly worse than the actual consequences. Very often, there's an 11th hour deal

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