Cost for recent government shutdowns estimated at $4 billion
The last three U.S. government shutdowns reportedly cost taxpayers about $4 billion, according to a newly released bipartisan investigation.
Nearly $3.7 of the $4 billion total went to paying workers who didn’t work during the shutdown, according to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which released the report after months of examining the closure’s effects.
The remaining $338 million came from other costs, including administrative work, lost revenue and interest payments, the report says. The combined total of furlough days during the three shutdowns combined was nearly 15 million — or a total of nearly 57,000 years of lost productivity for agency employees, according to the report.
Two of the last three shutdowns — one in January 2018 and one that began in late 2018 and extended into 2019 — occurred during the Trump administration, with the third taking place in 2013 under former President Obama. The late 2018 shutdown that lasted into the next year was the longest in U.S. history at 35 days.
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