A covered podium outside of the House of Representatives at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 15, 2025. | Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images The federal government shutdown, now in its third week, is a big deal. Federal workers aren’t getting paid, and crucial public services are closed. Despite that, in media coverage and on Capitol Hill, it hasn’t exactly felt like a crisis. Matt Glassman, a senior fellow at Georgetown who studies Congress, and author of the Five Points newsletter, has previously written about that dynamic; I spoke with him for Vox’s daily newsletter, Tod...

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