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The U.S. economy lost at least $6 billion during the record-long partial government shutdown, S&P Global Ratings said Friday.
The economic hit stems from a loss of productivity and and economic activity lost to outside business during the shutdown, which ended on its 35th day on Friday, Reuters reported.
Nearly 800,000 federal employees were furloughed or working without pay during the shutdown.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/427085-us-economy-lost-at-least-6-billion-during-shutdown-sp-says
struggle4progress
(118,342 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Be guess is a Billion a day. But then we will never know. Trump and his stooges will pick some number that suits them and that will be it.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I can't see how the Ted Cruz shutdown in 2013 cost $24 billion plus and the Trump shutdown, which was much longer, cost only $6 billion. Someone is cooking books.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)closer to 50 if it ran a month. The Cruz shut down was 21 days and the 24 number came some months later and that was from a honest Government.
Cha
(297,655 posts)This should be in campaign ads against #trumpShutDowns.
Poor Smithsonian