Top GOP leader on shutdown: ‘This could go on for quite some time’

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  I think the president's trying to make a point,

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  while you're not in doing your work, I'm going to do some of your work for you.

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  Which in this case seems to be firing or laying off thousands of people.

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  Yeah.

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  I mean, I think it's 4,000 people.

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  So far.

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  Right.

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  And, you know, I'd like to see it done more surgically,

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  but I think the president and his executive team has decided this direction to go.

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  That's Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the senior Republican from West Virginia.

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  She's also the only woman in Senate Republican leadership.

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  I wanted to find out how she thinks this ongoing federal government shutdown is going to end,

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  and what is her message to the real people who are caught up in this stalemate?

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  From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

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  I'm Colby Echoitz.

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  It's Friday, October 17th.

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  The shutdown is in its third week.

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  Republicans and Democrats are still at odds.

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  Democrats say in order to reopen the government,

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  Republicans have to agree to extend healthcare subsidies that will lower premiums for millions of Americans.

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