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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

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It's Wednesday, September 29th, 2021. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, we've got the latest on how Democrats are trying to avoid a government shutdown. Number two, progressives are holding firm against passing infrastructure without reconciliation. And number three,

Ad Wars. All right, Jake, let's get into it. The biggest story of the day. Government shutdown.

We are just hours, frankly, away from a possible shutdown on Thursday night. But it appears that

Democrats have figured out a way out of it.

Yeah, it does seem like that.

It seems like they're going to pass a, the Democrats are, I mean, they're, I don't want to say

they're caving, but they're caving.

So they're going to move a clean, instead of Democrats are going to move a clean funding

bill today, a bill that is going to keep the government

open until December 3rd, because why would they keep the government open any longer than

December 3rd? So we could have the same damn crisis minus the dead ceiling, I guess,

December 3rd. So funding is fine. Like, let's just go through these issues and then we could wrap about it a little bit, Anna,

but funding is fine.

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