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The shutdown took so long to end because it became a moral issue

  • Written by Timothy Ryan, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden.AP Photo/ Evan Vucci

Even as the partial shutdown of the federal government came to an end, many Americans were left baffled.

Why didn’t Congress and the president strike a deal sooner?

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees were asked to work without pay because of a fight over a border...

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