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Agreed to, drum roll, please, do it's job. that's two full years of the school lunch program for example. that's the gap we have in airport improvements that really important infrastructure. you could recover that if we weren't in this per pbudget fig mess. don't put this countdown clock away because we'll have to pull it out again in a few months. if we didn't have all of this budget fighting, maybe you would make up the 24 billion but we're at the beginning of congress doing it's job. >> jonathan in your new york magazine, probably the single biggest republican mistake failing to understand ...

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. they've 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's budget to 2012. house budget chairman paul ryde is unveiling his 2012 plan any minute now, and i...

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