Shutdown ends but its damage will last – Roll Call

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Shutdown ends but its damage will last

Podcast, Episode 137

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

By Shawn Zeller and Patrick B. Pexton

Posted January 25, 2019 at 4:15pm

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CQ Homeland Security Editor Patrick B. Pexton discusses the details of the deal between President Donald Trump and lawmakers to end the shutdown. Max Stier, president of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, says it has done lasting damage to the civil service and that Congress must never allow it to happen again.

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