In Shutdown Blame Game, Independents Are Real Winners

President Trump signed a bill to fund the government, marking the close of the longest government shutdown in history. The end of the shutdown sparks the familiar questions: Who won? Who lost? Which party will pay the political price? It shows how both parties have turned governing into a competition for blame instead of a commitment to solutions. The well-known ritual says more about Washington’s dysfunction than it does about the Americans caught in the middle.

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