"To end the shutdown" means to bring a halt or stoppage to the suspension of government activities and functions due to lack of agreement or funding.
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Sentences with «to end the shutdown»
- The president and fellow Democrats insist that Congress first end the shutdown and extend the debt limit before any negotiations. (canadianbusiness.com)
- @user4012 I made my second point more explicit on how the GOP benefited from ending the shutdown quickly (politics.stackexchange.com)
- Today's «capitulation» (no doubt the operative Tea Party term) by Speaker John Boehner on putatively ending the shutdown invites the question: Who is more brilliant, Senator Ted «over the top» Cruz or Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform? (redmassgroup.com)
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