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It's Friday, March 14th. Government funding runs out at midnight. We start here.

Progressives have been demanding that Democrats make a stand, but their leader in the Senate says no dice.

I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.

Why a government shutdown suddenly seems less likely.

The president's pick to lead the CDC is no longer his pick.

That sort of set off this big question of, okay, so who was against him?

What had happened?

We'll explain why Dave Weldon lost out on the gig.

And correction.

Wall Street does not like uncertainty, and there is plenty of it right now.

Stocks continue their rapid decline on Trump's tariff threats.

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Stephen Portnoy.

Hey, Brad's out today, but I've got you covered from D.C.

There's sort of a sad truth here about how Congress gets things done these days.

Our lawmakers tend to careen from crisis to crisis.

They seem to stop just short of taking the country over the fiscal cliff,

and then they kick the can down the road just in time to stave off a government shutdown.

Well, the next big deadline is at

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