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5. It's obviously not certain we would have gotten the extended subsidies by continuing to keep government closed

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 02:02 PM

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Do you have an example of the minority getting major concessions in that situation? Sometimes neither side of a binary choice gets you what you want.

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