Trump's lockout is the longest on record. 75% of the government is funded through September, but the 25% that is closed includes important functions like training air traffic controllers, and coastguard officers, food stamps, food safety inspections, superfund remediation, national park service and more. Seven outstanding spending bill remain stalled that affect nine departments including the Treasury and Justice. 420,000 federal employees are working without pay. If the shutdown continues for two more weeks, it will cost the country more than $6 billion, more than the absurd cost estimates provided by the regime for the Trump's wall.
Of course this development will be used by White House flacks to deride Democrats in the House who refuse to pay for a monument to Individual I's egomania. Notably the Defense Department, which is the only government function reactionary conservatives really care about because it provides so much profit to capitalists, is unaffected by the shutdown:
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