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Manhattan Institute Issues Commentary to Bloomberg Opinion: Can America Afford to Reopen the Government?
October 24, 2025
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on Oct. 23, 2025, to Bloomberg Opinion:

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Can America Afford to Reopen the Government?

By Allison Schrager

What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss -- so much so that their elected officials have shut down the government to avoid it.

Since the 1960s, . . .

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