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I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Wednesday, September 24th.
Here's what we're covering.
This is Katie Edmondson reporting from Washington and right now we are days away from a government shutdown barring any major changes here on Capitol Hill.
By refusing to even sit down with Democrats, Donald Trump is causing the shutdown.
This is a Trump shutdown work.
If the government is shut down,
it will solely be blamed on Democrats because we're not playing politics with this at all.
This probably sounds pretty familiar to you because we were in a similar situation back in March,
but it feels very different this time.
My colleague Katie Edmondson says the standoff between Republicans and Democrats has escalated,
with no solution in sight about how to keep the government running.