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I was absolutely thinking about the cat when I wrote this.

my "what about the anti deficiency act" shirt* has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

(*regrettably, i don't actually own such a shirt.)

i am assuming that the individual in this hypothetical is also wearing a "linz was right" shirt.

Rachel wrote a Brookings version summarizing the part of this research agenda on contractors and rulemaking specifically, though that might be too narrow for your purposes www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

you're really burying the lede by failing to mention that said reign involved lamberth ordering the severing of the internet connections of parts of the interior department *more than once* www.govexec.com/federal-news...

Oh, and underappreciated point: even if Congress avoids a shutdown now, they're just kicking the can down the road for some number of weeks and this core tension will still be here when a CR runs out.