All Politics is National in Budget Vote

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The House passed a yearlong spending bill on Thursday that would cut $39 billion from national spending. 179  Republicans and 81  Democrats voted for the measure, which will keep the government running until September. But the vote did a lot more than avert a shutdown. It laid bare, for the first time, a new dynamic at work in Congress. Takeaway Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich explains how the vote showed that sometimes all politics is not always local.

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