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You're the top economic official in the United States.

Take us inside the room.

What is your role?

And who else in the room is

advised the president? The president's the top economic official at the United States.

Advice you. If he heard you say that, I'd be fired. If I said, I don't know.

At the end of the week, Washington empties out. Fast. Lawmakers, staffers, they're all heading home. But not before they stop here.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Punch Bull News, Tannos for another episode of Fly Out Day.

I'm Anna Palmer, joined as always by Jake Sherman. We are doing a special edition, Jake of Fyote Day and why?

Well, because the government is shut down and that's big news for us and for our audience and for Capitol Hill.

This is a shutdown that we have no idea how long it's going to last.

We don't know what we laid out in the AM edition,

and we've been saying since March that this was going to happen,

but we laid out kind of the exit strategies,

what might happen, what might not happen, why they would happen,

what the incentive structures are. So to be honest with you, kind of the exit strategies, what might happen, what might not happen, why they would happen,

what the incentive structures are.

So to be honest with you,

this is a shutdown that we all expected.

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