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In the Local Group, nearly all of the dwarf galaxies ($\mstar < 10 ^ 9 \msun$) that are satellites within $300 \kpc$
(approximately the (the virial radius) of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) have quiescent star formation and little-to-no cold gas.
This contrasts strongly with the more isolated dwarf galaxies at larger distances, which are almost all actively star-forming and gas-rich.
This near dichotomy implies that environmental processes within the halos of the MW and M31 \emph{rapidly} remove gas and quench star formation in their satellites after infall.
We combine the observed quiescent fractions of satellites of the MW/M31 with the virial-infall times of satellites in the ELVIS suite of cosmological simulations of MW/M31-like halos to infer statistically the timescales over which satellite dwarf galaxies are environmentally quenched.