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U.S. government shutdown could be longest ever, Speaker Mike Johnson warns (globalnews.ca)
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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 month ago

They were going to fire those govt employees anyway, let's not kid ourselves. They demonstrated that they were capable of gutting critical govt agencies while the govt was still open, they didn't need a shutdown.