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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday January 22nd 2018.

I'm Noah Rothman. Unfortunately John Podhoritz is out today with the flu we wish him well with me as always.

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Gentlemen today is the beginning of the end of a very short lived government shutdown.

The first government shutdown since 2013 where we had 16 days of non-essential personnel furloughed and a lot of misery and parks were shut down and it was drab and miserable and

the dedication of our political decline and our cultural decline and I guess we've had sort of something of a reprise but it was very short-lived and I don't really know what it was about tell tell you the honest truth.

I have no idea what the strategy was in this part. It was a democratic led effort to do many things ostensibly.

The effort was to tack on to a three week funding bill that would a continuing resolution that would keep the government open for three weeks.

A six year extension of the children's health insurance program chip which was agreed to that was on the table but also the making permanent of the deferred action program for the children of illegal immigrants DACA.

That one was not on the table and there were votes that were had and it didn't pass and on Friday night we shut everything down.

We had a weekend and then this afternoon everybody came to the table and everybody agreed that somehow this was going to be resolved only because Democrats received verbal assurances from Mitch McConnell that they would have a vote before February 8 on DACA.

Now if you think that Republicans were not going to approve DACA before it expired formally on March 5th I suppose this is a win for you if you thought they were going to go right up to the deadline and not approve this program that has the support of 80% of the public including a majority of Republicans including a majority of Trump voters depending on the poll you look at.

Then I guess this is a win for you.

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