Republicans in Congress might force the government to shut down when the fiscal year ends on Oct. 1… Joining us to discuss what another shutdown will mean and why this kind of thing keeps happening in our national politics is Louis DeSipio – he’s a political science [and Chicano/Latino studies] professor at UC Irvine… “My strong suspicion is that we’ll have at least a short-term shutdown of the federal government and probably one that lasts into the medium term – a couple of weeks,” says DeSipio.

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