Government shutdown on the brink of becoming the longest ever [View all]
When the federal government ran out of money on Oct. 1, the consensus in Washington, D.C., was that it was likely the start of one of the longest shutdowns ever. Those predictions have proven to be true.
A full month later, the government is still shut down, and the dynamics in Congress that led to the standoff in the first place are essentially unchanged. Republicans still need a handful of votes from Democrats to get any plan to reopen the government through the Senate. Democrats still say they’ll only let a funding proposal pass if it satisfies some of their policy priorities, a demand the GOP has fully rejected.
Monday will mark the 34th day of this shutdown, one day short of tying the record for longest ever. If it stretches into Tuesday, it will match the 35 days that the government was shut down during President Trump’s first term in the White House. The current shutdown became the second-longest shutdown more than a week ago when it surpassed the 21-day standoff that occurred in 1996 during Bill Clinton’s presidency.
This is already the longest “full” shutdown in U.S. history, in which the entire federal bureaucracy has run out of funding. During the previous shutdown, some parts of the government — most notably the military — were unaffected.
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No one does shutdowns like me - Donny Dementia
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