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Okay, stop us if you've heard this before. The government is up against a deadline to pass a new

spending bill before a shutdown that could happen at the end of this week. Welcome to Cyber from the

Washington Post. I'm Rhonda Colvin here with my colleagues, columnist and editorial writer James Holman

and J.M. Rieger, senior video journalist. Thanks, guys.

On today's show, we're going to break down the looming government shutdown and how this scenario

of a race against the clock is becoming commonplace, the politics behind it. And, you know,

what are the ins and outs that we know of so far? We're also going to chat a little bit

about J.D. Vance. He is actually on the hill right now as we're taping this, or he may have just

left, but we're trying to figure out what type of vice president is he becoming and what we know

about him so far. So we will dive into that later, but first, let's start talking about

the shutdown and what we know right now.

I think a lot of people are wondering, why do we keep, as reporters, keep saying there's a looming government shutdown.

And I will fill in right now as a Capitol Hill reporter that there is a government funding deadline every September 30th.

So this is an annual thing.

But in the years past, we've seen it come down to the wire where they keep passing

continuing resolutions or CRs that are just those kick the can down the road type of measures

that just keep government funding at their current levels and just push back the deadline.

So, J.M., starting with you, why, you know,

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