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Mike Mulcahy

Political Junkie talks government shutdown

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The U.S. government shut down Friday after the Senate's failure to agree on a stopgap spending bill. The Political Junkie Ken Rudin weighed in with guest host and MPR News political editor Mike Mulcahy on what happened and what it's going to take for the government shutdown to end.

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