Support for LAist comes from
Become a sponsor
Audience-funded nonprofit news
Donate
Stay Connected

LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media network.

Audience-funded nonprofit news
Listen
Donate
Podcasts Take Two
What will it take to avoid a government shutdown?
solid orange rectangular banner
()
Take Two Logo
Sep 24, 2013
Listen • 6:59
What will it take to avoid a government shutdown?
Paul Kane of the Washington Post speaks with host Alex Cohen about the delicate timetable of everything that needs to happen, and exactly by when, in order to forestall a shutdown.
US President Barack Obama arrives to speak on the economy at a meeting of his Export Council in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Wahsington, DC, on September 19, 2013. Obama accused his critics September 18, of extorting him over raising the US debt ceiling, as a Republican budget gamble brought the prospect of a government shutdown ever closer.
US President Barack Obama arrives to speak on the economy at a meeting of his Export Council in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Wahsington, DC, on September 19, 2013. Obama accused his critics September 18, of extorting him over raising the US debt ceiling, as a Republican budget gamble brought the prospect of a government shutdown ever closer.
(
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images
)

Paul Kane of the Washington Post speaks with host Alex Cohen about the delicate timetable of everything that needs to happen, and exactly by when, in order to forestall a shutdown.

Only seven days remain until the government runs out of money. Not only are the politics of reaching an agreement quite daunting, the process itself is quite Byzantine. 

Paul Kane of the Washington Post speaks with host Alex Cohen about the delicate timetable of everything that needs to happen, and exactly by when, in order to forestall a shutdown.