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The government shutdown is now the longest in history. Panelists joined Washington Week With The Atlantic<\/em> to discuss how voters and lawmakers are responding, and more.<\/p>\n Three weeks before Thanksgiving, \u201cthe administration has chosen to not find money to fund the food-assistance program for some 42 million Americans,\u201d Jeff Zeleny, the chief national-affairs correspondent at CNN, said last night. \u201cBut they have found money for military payments and ICE officers and others. That choice, he added, \u201cis beginning to catch up with the administration and Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, \u201cDemocrats seem to be much more dug in than they were before Tuesday,\u201d Atlantic <\/em>staff writer Mark Leibovich noted. \u201cI think they seem emboldened by Tuesday\u2019s elections.\u201d<\/p>\n Joining the editor in chief of The<\/em> Atlantic<\/em>, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at Puck<\/em>; David Ignatius, a foreign-affairs columnist at The Washington Post<\/em>; Mark Leibovich, a staff writer at The Atlantic<\/em>; and Jeff Zeleny, the chief national-affairs correspondent at CNN.<\/p>\n Watch the full episode here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The government shutdown is now the longest in history. Panelists joined Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss how voters and lawmakers are responding, and more. Three weeks before Thanksgiving, \u201cthe administration has chosen to not find money to fund the food-assistance program for some 42 million Americans,\u201d Jeff Zeleny, the chief national-affairs correspondent at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[5053,10913,11209],"class_list":{"0":"post-32649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-lawmakers","9":"tag-responding","10":"tag-shutdown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}