Patrick Reis:
“You can believe that Republicans forced a shutdown by taking the
government hostage to muscle through changes they couldn’t get through
regular order. Or you can blame Democrats for refusing to make any
changes whatsoever to Obamacare in exchange for keeping the government
open. But you can’t blame them both.”
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