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Shutdown prep is exhausting Washington. And all the brinksmanship has real costs.

After temporarily averting another shutdown this week, the routine has grown familiar on Capitol Hill after more than 50 stopgap funding bills since fiscal year 2010 and too many complaints about the process to count.

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