As the government shutdown heads into its third week tomorrow, we thought it was time to explain what it’s really about. Yes, you can blame partisan grandstanding and the winner-takes-all atmosphere that prevails in Washington, but Bloomberg News’ John Tozzi unpacks the health-care dispute that’s become the focus of the standoff. Plus: A bank based at Trump Tower has ties to the first family that run deeper than that, and US tariffs are creating new alliances among other trading nations.
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