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President Donald J. Trump walks to Air Force One at Morristown Airport on Sept. 14. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Here’s what this editorial board wrote in March: “Normally, we would not endorse a shutdown of the U.S. government. But nothing about this moment in American history is normal. If a shutdown, or the threat of one, is what brings congressional Republicans to their senses, or at least to the negotiating table, so be it.

“Democrats who have pleaded helplessness in the face of one-party control of the government would be irresponsible not to seize the opportunity they finally have to insist on a return to some semblance of constitutional order.

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“We do not suggest this lightly. A partial shutdown, which would happen without a spending plan in place by the........

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