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How the Effects of the Government Shutdown Are Piling Up - Longest in history


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/08/us/politics/government-shutdown-calendar.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/09/us/politics/longest-government-shutdown.html
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/politics/shutdown-effects/

Jan. 11
Federal workers miss a paycheck
https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/livestory/w_900/17463934-9928-4bf0-966e-9d97bb9e3b4a.png

Jan. 12
Breaks the record for longest government shutdown in history (kinda funny how the longest shutdowns were all under democrat leadership excluding gaps, until now that is).
-1995 (Bill Clinton): 21 Days
-1978 (Jimmy Carter): 17 Days
-2013 (Barack Obama): 16 Days
-1977 (Jimmy Carter): 12 Days

Jan. 15
Members of the Coast Guard, which is funded through the Department of Homeland Security, miss their paychecks.

Jan. 18
Federal district courts run out of funds. Civil cases may be suspended or postponed, but criminal cases and other essential work will proceed.

Jan. 25
Federal workers miss another paycheck.

Trump has racked up three funding gaps — one lasting a day, another one for three days, and the current shutdown.

There have been 21 gaps in government funding since 1976, though the level of shutdown has varied. Prior to 1981, most agencies could continue to operate during periods of expired funding by cutting non-essential operations.

Many agencies within the federal government are operating normally during the shutdown because they were funded through this fiscal year, which ends in September 2019.

But if lawmakers and the White House fail to reach a budget agreement for months — or even “years,” as President Trump has suggested — that funding would start to run out too. Some economists are already predicting that a shutdown lasting longer than February would harm the broader economy.

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Why don't the dems do something, I thought they were the good guys?

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They keep bringing proposals...why doesn't the big cry baby do something for the country?..I thought he was making it great again?

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Don't worry, Mexico is paying for the wall. Trump promised!

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"...Coast Guard, which is funded through the Department of Homeland Security,"

The irony is that the Coast Guard protects the U.S. against terrorism.

Other disruptions:
*People can't get mortgages approved.
*Rent assistance like Section 8 won't be paid.
*Mass transit will be effected.
*Garbage piling up in national parks.
*Contractors not paid
*Federal courts effected like bankruptcy courts and immigration courts.
*No food inspections
*No tax refunds
*No national financial data which effects the stock market negatively
*No farm aid
*Tax refunds not spent on purchases which hurts businesses like car dealerships
*Airport lines longer
*Fewer deportations

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Yep, holding the American people hostage. Tsk tsk. FBI operations damaged, ICE at risk of running out of money to pay contractors to catch illegals, low income renters at risk, Fed without critical data. The only thing keeping the country going still is the willingness of people to continue to go to work for free without pay. I also noticed how many Americans don't even have a plan B in case of situations like this. It's like they never saved or put money aside in case of emergencies.

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I worked for the fed. gov. years ago for a short time when there was a furlough. I was fine, but my coworkers were panicking about it and talked about taking out emergency loans to survive. That was my first lesson in how many people live paycheck to paycheck. Trump lied when he said that he could relate.

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That's why he's seriously thinking of declaring a national emergency and appropriating military money and personnel to build the wall. Even if the courts allowed him to do it, the next progressive that gets in there is going to declare Climate Change a national emergency and will start taking away all cars but electrics, and insisting on phasing out fossil fuels entirely.

Which would almost be worth living to see, just to see what happens when they realize all the technology they're addicted to -- including and especially those phones -- are made from plastics, which require fossil fuels. 😂

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1 Month of government shutdown. Final food stamps payment made out on Jan.20th. 5 more days until the 2nd federal paycheck miss date.

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