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The 35-day shutdown, the longest in US history after surpassing the 21-day shutdown of 1995–1996, [105] led to 380,000 federal workers being furloughed, and an additional 420,000 workers were required to work without any known payment dates, forcing many to find other paid work or protest against the extended period of the deadlock.
The United States federal government shutdown from midnight EST on December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019 (35 days) was the longest government shutdown in US history [1] [2] and the second [a] and final federal government shutdown involving furloughs during the first presidency of Donald Trump.
Some of the most significant shutdowns in U.S. history have included the 21-day shutdown of 1995–1996 during the Bill Clinton administration over opposition to major spending cuts; the 16-day shutdown in 2013 during the Barack Obama administration caused by a dispute over implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; [15 ...
As a result of conflicts between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress over funding for education, the environment, and public health in the 1996 federal budget, the United States federal government shut down from November 14 through November 19, 1995, and from December 16, 1995, to January 6, 1996, for 5 and 21 days, respectively.
Employees at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are bracing for a shutdown, and one union leader is calling on Congress to fund the government. BOP employees are deemed essential, so they will ...
The most expensive government shutdown in history cost about $3 billion. That is what the Congressional Budget Office calculates was permanently taken out of the US economy during a 2019 standoff ...
The most expensive government shutdown in history led to about $3 billion permanently taken out of the US economy, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The reason: that 2018-2019 standoff ...
However, after that continuing resolution expired, a shutdown occurred for an afternoon on October 17, 1986, in which 500,000 federal employees were furloughed. [8] All government agencies were affected by this shutdown. [15] It ended after Congress passed the omnibus appropriations bill later that day.