Who will get blamed for a government shutdown and will the Trump plan save Gaza?

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So, Audrey, we're recording Tuesday morning here, shutdown set for midnight Tuesday,

unless there's a rabbit out of a hat, which is always possible, some five to seven day type extension,

which Chuck Schumer was floating yesterday, then backed off from unless that happens,

we're headed to a government shutdown.

And Democrats believe that Republicans will be blamed.

One, because the issue that Democrats are kind of pretextually making this all about,

there's Obamacare subsidies, and they think they're in a strong position on health care policy generally. Two, Republicans have unified control of

Washington, so if the government shuts down, it's all going to be on them. Republicans,

on the other hand, think that they're the ones who are trying to pass these spending bills

to keep the government open, and it's Democrats opposing it and making a demand.

So they'll be the ones that prevail here, and Democrats will be blamed.

Who's right?

Yeah, so as things stand, we're still in a stalemate.

As you mentioned, there could be an off-ramp technically,

but it looks like we're

barreling toward a shutdown. So House Republicans are out of town. They've already passed a seven-week-long,

basically clean, continuing resolution. I use the word basically because the only kind of unrelated

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