Assuming this whole debt ceiling doohickey gets worked out soon, we immediately shift to the next government shutdown. Remember the near-shutdown in the spring was over the short-term budget to finish out the fiscal year ending in September. The big budget, the one that really, really matters, still isn’t hammered out yet. So the fun is only just beginning. What a way to run a country.
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