We discuss the government shutdown, now entering its third week, and how President Trump is responding by making more cuts — this time to staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because nothing says you care about a functional federal government like laying off the people who respond to outbreaks of measles, mpox, and Ebola.

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