Shutdown
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| Season: | 5 |
| Episode: | 8 |
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| Written By: | Mark Goffman, Josh Singer |
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| Airdate: | November 19, 2003 |
| Guest Stars: | Steven Culp |
A disastrous fiscal crisis looms when the federal government is shut down after the President engages in a war of wills between the powerful GOP House Speaker over an extra two percent in budget reductions that would trim many of Bartlet's key social programs -- and the Democrats are blamed based on opinion polls. As Leo, Josh and Toby send everyone home, they remain uneasy as the President refuses to compromise -- until he arrives on a bold plan to personally and publically challenge the Republicans in the halls of the Capitol. Meanwhile, Abbey suddenly reappears from her self-imposed exile for a State dinner that she might have to cook herself. [1]
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A girl on TV Says that her family came to Washington to see her Grandma and the Constitution. "But the Smithsonian's closed. Now we only get to see Grandma." The Constitution is in the National Archives, not the Smithsonian.
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Josh Lyman: Let's go up to the Hill and see 'em. The country's waiting for someone to step up. It should be us.
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"The West Wing" Shutdown (2003)
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