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Less than 24 hours out from a government shutdown and the dynamics, obviously kind of right down

to the wire here. Yeah, so let's, we broke this in the newsletter into five parts.

So let's go over all the five parts.

Good morning.

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It's Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.

Let's get in the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the dynamics to watch with a shutdown just hours away.

Number two, mods hold firm on their messaging.

And number three, Democrats want to know how the Pentagon is going to spend its reconciliation money.

All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are less than 24 hours out from a government shutdown. And the dynamics, obviously kind of right down to the wire here, it will be less than 19 hours at 1201 a.m. Wednesday, the federal government will shut down for the first time since 2018.

This has been something that I think some people were making fun of us behind the scenes saying, man, it's 80 days, it's 68 days.

You guys, you know, can't stop talking about a shutdown.

But this is something that we have been talking about for quite a while since basically March 31st.

That's going to be a late night in the Senate. But let's review what we know has happened this week, why it matters, the dynamics of this White House meeting. And the most important, I think more than anyone, we need to tee it up with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. All the eyes, all the pressure is on him. Yeah, so let's, we broke this in the newsletter into five parts. So let's go over all the five parts. Number one, Schumer and Jeffries. It was a bit of a mess yesterday for the two top Democratic leaders. Chuck Schumer was floating an off-ramp,

a short-term CR, to his membership before the shutdown even started. So Republicans were saying,

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