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Today on the Playbook podcast, are we headed for another shutdown?

Congress votes today on a funding deal.

Over at the White House, Donald Trump

hosts his cabinet with underfire Christine Nome at his side. And in Minnesota, borders our Tom

homin holds a press conference this morning after taking control of the ICE operation. Hello,

I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Mia McCarthy, and today is Thursday, January 29th.

Mia McCarthy on the podcast. Great to have you making your debut. How you doing? Good. How are you?

Thanks for having me. So good to have you. For those of you who don't know, Mia is one of our star Capitol Hill reporters.

And the reason we've got Mia on the podcast this morning is, of course, that it is a very, very big day on Capitol Hill today because it doesn't feel very long ago that we were talking about government shutdowns and we got out of the government shutdown and we thought the government shutdown was over. And now we're talking about it again, Mia. Are you surprised to be back in this point? Not at all. I think most people up on the hill predicted that we'd be back here.

I mean, it feels like about 100 years, right? It has in fact just been a matter of weeks.

Right. And so I think a lot of people expected something would come through. I don't think people necessarily expected we would be so close to hitting another shutdown necessarily. I think people knew there were a lot of things that were up in the air,

but the shooting last weekend definitely has brought up a lot of issues and really leads us to what's

looking like, at least a partial shutdown this weekend. Yeah. So for those of you that haven't been

following this closely, the government funding deadline is tomorrow night, Friday night at midnight. There are still

six government funding bills that need to be passed by that date. And essentially, the Senate has to do

that today. And correct me if I'm wrong, me, it felt like we were on a glide path to that happening

right up until last Saturday morning. It felt like basically the appropriators had done their jobs

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