once it was hijacked? and the federal government fails us time and time again. let s go, outfront. i m erin burnett. countdown to shutdown. 28 hours to go. feel like deja vu? me too. i feel like bill murray in the ground hog day. put your hand in mine the government is due to shut down tomorrow. then put your little hand in mine we re now less than 30 hours away from the government shutting down. only this isn t ground hog day. this is our reality. this is the eighth time this year that the united states of america has been flirting with a shutdown. remember august when the misguided debt ceiling debacle costed the entire country the top credit rating in the world? these shutdowns aren t about politics, they re about money. democrats and republicans never passed the full budget. this time the government will run out of money tomorrow at midnight unless a bill is passed. what s strange about this shutdown is democrats and republicans have mostly agree