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Even as the shutdown neared an apparent endgame, the political fallout was still rolling through Trump’s coalition on February 11. Federal workers, contractors, and Republican lawmakers were left carrying the consequences of a fight that had not produced the promised wall. The result was a very Washington kind of disaster: everybody took the pain, and Trump still needed a second act.
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Even as the shutdown neared an apparent endgame, the political fallout was still rolling through Trump’s coalition on February 11. Federal workers, contractors, and Republican lawmakers were left carrying the consequences of a fight that had not produced the promised wall. The result was a very Washington kind of disaster: everybody took the pain, and Trump still needed a second act.
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Even as the shutdown neared an apparent endgame, the political fallout was still rolling through Trump’s coalition on February 11. Federal workers, contractors, and Republican lawmakers were left carrying the consequences of a fight that had not produced the promised wall. The result was a very Washington kind of disaster: everybody took the pain, and Trump still needed a second act.
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