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Oct 3, 2025, 5:00 am125 ptsUsing a government shutdown as a political bargaining tactic was popularized in 1995 by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and conventional wisdom holds that it backfired on his party. So ever since, a question has loomed over every other discussion of whether a political party should use it: How…
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