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entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. I called up Jamel Bowie from over at the New York Times because after this weekend, I was mad, like really mad.

And I wanted to talk to someone about it.

So, Jamel, now that it seems like the shutdown is ending, can you tell me what was the last

six weeks about?

What was the last six weeks about?

Yeah.

Late Sunday night, as you've probably heard, eight Senate Democrats decided to vote with

Republicans to pass a continuing resolution to fund

the government. This, after sitting on their hands for six weeks, in the hopes that Republicans

would sign off on extending a bunch of health care tax credits that expire at the end of the year.

In the end, Democrats compromised, but those ACA credits, they are still

expiring. And beyond a vague promise to hold a vote on them in December, Democrats did not

get squat. That's what really nodded at me. Hence they call to Jamel.

To step back a little bit, shutdowns as a political tactic have never been especially successful

for the party that engages in them, which is the congressional minority party.

So were the Democrats destined to lose here?

So, yeah, that's where I'm going to, I'm going with this.

I'm not sure that there is a world in which the majority, Republicans in Congress and

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