But in terms of concrete consequences, here is the best i can tell. The government is funded again for 17 more days. So thats why i say were maybe shutting down again two weeks from thursday on february 8th. The chip program, which is almost literally the least controversial seriously consequential policy in washington, the chip program which nobody is against, which provides Health Insurance to 9 million kids and lots of pregnant women, that chip program did finally get reupped. Republicans had let that program expire in september. Again, this is not a controversial program, at all. Which means they could have held a vote to reauthorize this any time in the past year, let alone since it expired but until we have this ridiculous threeday shutdown this weekend, they wouldnt do it. But now they have. Chip reauthorized for six years. This means parents who have kids who are in ongoing treatment for any kind of illness, they no longer have to worry that their kids Health Insurance is about