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Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we begin with breaking news in our politics

lead. We're less than 48 hours from a federal government shutdown here in the United States.

We are just now learning the lawmakers

are emerging from House Speaker Mike Johnson's office saying that there is an agreement between

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