The pain from the government shutdown is about to hit the public
The ongoing government shutdown will collide with the U.S. economy this week, as missed paychecks and the absence of billions of dollars of government services reverberate beyond federal workers and sting the broader public.
President Donald Trump and lawmakers in Congress remain deadlocked heading into a third week of shuttered federal agencies. Republicans control both chambers of Congress but lack the votes in the Senate to defeat a filibuster of legislation to fund ongoing operations. Democrats insist that Trump and the GOP must cut a deal to preserve health insurance subsidies as part of an agreement to reopen the government.
The shutdown has already caused nationwide flight delays, closed taxpayer help lines at the Internal Revenue Service, snarled permitting approvals at the Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department, and shut off access to national parks.
Workers vital to national security and protecting government property remain on the job unpaid, but others - some 750,000, according to congressional bookkeepers - have been furloughed. The Trump administration laid off some 4,000 workers Friday.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pain-government-shutdown-hit-public-162157264.html
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probably something to do with a Monday holiday, but the payment from the government
isn't due until next Wednesday, and then my bank sends it two days early... which would have been Monday.
Instead I had it on Friday...
Can't quite figure it out, but I'm not complaining.
