{"id":35083,"date":"2018-12-22T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35083"},"modified":"2018-12-22T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T18:37:20","slug":"shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten a few days ago: Speaking to Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office, Trump said on December 11, \u201cI am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. \u2026 I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I\u2019m not going to blame you for it.\u201d<\/a>  Of course, that was then, and now Republicans are trying to blame their shutdown on us.  Don’t let them!<\/font><\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump has vowed that the partial government shutdown that began at midnight \u2014 the second government shutdown to occur while Republicans control the White House and both branches of Congress \u2014 will last for a \u201cvery long time.\u201d<\/a> The shutdown is the result of Trump reneging on an agreement<\/a> to pass a \u201cclean\u201d bipartisan spending bill. Republicans then threw in more than $5 billion in funding for the wall, the president\u2019s vanity project, blowing up any agreement they had with Democrats to pass a budget.<\/p>\n

Because of Trump\u2019s shutdown, the country will go without a number of important services and employees indefinitely, until Congress can pass a spending agreement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Almost 400,000 federal workers are furloughed without pay, and the shutdown impacts basic government functions like tax collection, transportation, and even domestic security \u2014 including border security.<\/p>\n

The partial shutdown closes a number of important federal agencies: Departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security, the Interior, State, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Commerce, and Justice.<\/p>\n

Essential personnel, like corrections officers, FBI agents, TSA agents, Customs and Border Patrol, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, will be forced to work without pay (after other shutdowns, Congress has paid such workers retroactively once a budget or continuing resolution is passed, but the payment is up to Congress).<\/p>\n

Federal workers \u2014 who aren\u2019t concentrated in D.C. but working at agencies and offices across the country \u2014 are often hit hard by shutdowns. Thousands of federal workers make less than $45,000 a year, and going without a paycheck or several could force those households to dip into savings<\/strong>. The bottom 20 percent of American households<\/a> have an average savings of less than $8,750…. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Leave it to Republicans to hit the poorest hardest.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here’s a clip from CNN<\/a> with a little more detail.<\/font><\/p>\n

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