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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Congress barrels toward another deadline to fund the federal government with a potential shutdown now looming at midnight on Tuesday.

If that happens, it would be the fourth federal shutdown in a dozen years, leading the senator joining us today to conclude that

surely there's got to be a better way. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're pleased to have here with us today, Senator Ron Johnson, on location from the great state of

Wisconsin. And, Senator, unless you have some big news to break, neither of us

knows if Uncle Sam is going to be open for business five days from today. But what's your perspective

on the state of play as we sit here on Friday afternoon? The House has passed a bill to extend

current funding until shortly before Thanksgiving. Is there much hope of getting to the

60 Senate votes needed to get that through the upper chamber? Well, Kyle, let me just start with the

question. Aren't you getting sick and tired of this? This is my 15th year. I am beyond sick and

tired of this. The current state of play is Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, their opening, negotiating

stances, will give you a four-week CR. In other words, we'll fund the government for another month,

and all we're asking in exchange is just a mere $1.5 trillion of additional spending over 10 years.

That's it. You know, entirely reasonable. What the House has done

is they passed a relatively clean continuing resolution till right before Thanksgiving. I'm not

particularly nuts about that. That's the same old playbook. No matter who's in charge,

neither side can get the 60 votes in the Senate because, you know, we don't have the supermajorities.

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