potential government shutdown, all hands on deck. government workers were being briefed on what to do to shut down national parks. senior citizens were sent into a panic about what was going to happen with their social security and medicare benefits, all over a resolution to continue funding the government that republicans were holding up. a self-created crisis in which republicans extracted billions in spending cuts in a time the economy desperately needs more spending. and now this, the debt ceiling fight, republicans turning what has always been a routine congressional action into an imminent and dire crisis, pushing the country towards the brink of default. at each point along the way, the stakes get higher and higher. the fate of the unemployed, the fate of everyone who uses government services, and now the fate of global financial markets. each time this create a crisis strategy has been successful,
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