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The partial government shutdown is inflicting far greater damage on the United States economy than previously estimated, the White House acknowledged on Tuesday, as President Trump’s economists doubled projections of how much economic growth is being lost each week the standoff with Democrats continues.

The revised estimates from the Council of Economic Advisers show that the shutdown, now in its fourth week, is beginning to have real economic consequences. The analysis, and other projections from outside the White House, suggests that the shutdown has already weighed significantly on growth and could ultimately push the United States economy into a contraction.

 

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In a Month You’ll Wish the Shutdown Were Only as Bad as Today Airport security screeners could quit en masse, grounding flights. The federal courts could stop hearing civil cases. City buses could stop running.

And 38 million Americans could stop getting food stamps.

Officials from Washington to Wall Street are pondering nightmare scenarios if the partial U.S. government shutdown that is already the longest on record extends into spring -- or beyond.

TSA agents work at Atlanta International Airport on Jan. 14.

“Shutdowns don’t get bad linearly; they get bad exponentially,” said Sam Berger, a senior adviser at the Center for American Progress, who worked at the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama.

President Donald Trump’s administration has found creative means to blunt some of the shutdown’s effects -- figuring out ways to process tax refunds, for example. Yet agencies that have been able to dip into user fees, leftover funds and other revenue streams are running out of those reserves.

Lawsuits are already testing the administration’s ability to keep on the job unpaid workers, hundreds of thousands of whom missed their first paycheck last week.

Efforts by Republicans such as Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to cut an immigration deal to resolve the impasse have failed, and Trump on Monday rejected his latest proposal. An administration official said the White House is game-planning for the shutdown to continue through at least the end of February.

Beyond its direct effects on businesses, economists say the shutdown threatens to shake consumer confidence and chip away at retail sales, particularly as unpaid federal workers and contractors forgo spending on cars, new homes and even entertainment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-a-month-you-ll-wish-the-shutdown-were-only-as-bad-as-today/ar-BBSgOJh?ocid=AMZN

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This cuts right at the core of Trump because you know he's looking forward to an opportunity to address the nation and have the whole focus directly on him. She just took that away from him because he needs her permission in order to address Congress. It's the one institution of government he doesn't actually control.

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3 minutes ago, brucoe said:

This cuts right at the core of Trump because you know he's looking forward to an opportunity to address the nation and have the whole focus directly on him. She just took that away from him because he needs her permission in order to address Congress. It's the one institution of government he doesn't actually control.

 

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Trump will just broadcast the SOTU live from a Burder King

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13 minutes ago, Jason said:

I FULLY SUPPORT returning to the traditional format of submitting a written report to Congress rather than the ludicrous dog and pony show that is a live speech.

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13 minutes ago, brucoe said:

This cuts right at the core of Trump because you know he's looking forward to an opportunity to address the nation and have the whole focus directly on him. She just took that away from him because he needs her permission in order to address Congress. It's the one institution of government he doesn't actually control.

 

Yup. :daydream:

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, osxmatt said:

 

I don't know enough about House rules.

 

The President only performs a SOTU at the Speaker's request? So if the Speaker rescinds that invitation, the president can't SOTU?

 

Not in the House.

 

The Congress is a separate branch. The president can't just walk in and disrupt things and take the floor willy nilly to the best of my knowledge, just as the Speaker just can't barge into the Oval Office.

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4 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

Not in the House.

 

The Congress is a separate branch. The president can't just walk in and disrupt things and take the floor willy nilly to the best of my knowledge, just as the Speaker just can't barge into the Oval Office.

 

Damn next level Pelosi.

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