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Agreed to, drum roll, please, do its job. thats two full years of the school lunch program for example. thats the gap we have in airport improvements that really important infrastructure. you could recover that if we werent in this per pbudget fig mess. dont put this countdown clock away because well have to pull it out again in a few months. if we didnt have all of this budget fighting, maybe you would make up the 24 billion but were at the beginning of congress doing its job. >> jonathan in yo...

In just 15 minutes, president obama will sit down with republican and democratic leaders in the oval office and try to hammer out a budget deal. theyve got until 11:49 p.m. eastern on friday to make that happen. part of the government then will shut down. some museums and national parks, for example, will close. passport applications held up. a pennell official tells us u.s. troops will not be paid on time. more details on those things in a minute. some republicans are looking beyond this year...

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