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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

As the government shutdown goes into day 28, the stakes get higher with warnings about coming airline delays, no federal food stamp payments, and a call by a big government union to stop the stalemate.

But are there signs yet the Democrats might be ready to end the

block aid or that Republicans are winning the argument over these expiring Obamacare subsidies?

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues on the

editorial page, columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Kate O'Dell. The lapse in

government funding began four weeks ago with relatively modest effects, closed facilities at

national parks and so forth. That was the price of Chuck Schumer trying to show some fight

for his progressive base and uses leverage to get an extension of pandemic Obamacare

subsidies. But four weeks later, the stakes are getting much heavier. As of today, air traffic

controllers are now missing their first full paycheck. Let's listen to Transportation Secretary

Sean Duffy today on Fox News. Yeah, so they got their notice on Thursday and Friday.

They get a notice of what they're going to be paid on Tuesday. And they got a big fat zero. No paycheck is

coming on Tuesday. And so I've been out talking to our air traffic controllers. And you can see the

stress. These are people that oftentimes live paycheck to paycheck or one controller has a stay-at-home

spouse. They're concerned about gas in the car. They're concerned about child care and mortgages.

And so I'm seeing the stress come for the controllers. Just yesterday, Maria, we had 22 staffing

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