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A Government Shutdown Tutorial: Answers to 7 Popular Questions

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1) Why did the government shut down? 2) What is a government shutdown, exactly? 3) Has the government shut down before? 4) What is DACA, and why is it so important to all this? 5) But how did immigration get tied to the government shutdown? 6) What happened after the government shut down? 7) What’s next?

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