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800,000 Federal workers without pay, 4.1 million contractors in limbo:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/02/amid-th ... -food.html
42 million SNAP recipients, 7 million WIC recipients face loss of food stamps March 1:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government ... 018-01-09/
A typical story:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/06/us/shutd ... index.html
Fitch may downgrade US credit rating:
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/4245 ... dit-rating

Five ways the shutdown costs money:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/201 ... 573961002/
More on SNAP & the Shutdown:
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/governme ... -how-long/
220,000 in Colorado face loss of SNAP:
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/l ... f-shutdown
SNAP & TANF:
http://www.governing.com/topics/health- ... y-net.html
Starting to hit growth statistics:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pow ... 4bbaee3d88
Trump administration: Twice as bad as thought:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/15/source- ... ostly.html

Shutdown lowering outlook:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/423368 ... ic-outlook
Harm is beginning:
https://www.ft.com/content/b4970904-190 ... 50b3105d21
Warnings growing louder:
https://www.businessinsider.com/governm ... omy-2019-1
Pain deepening and spreading:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government ... nd-spread/
How the shutdown is hurting:
https://theweek.com/articles/817761/how ... ut-economy
The real danger to the economy - it's flying blind:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2 ... n-economy/

WSJ's take:
https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2019/01 ... e-economy/
Investors starting to worry:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-s ... 2019-01-16
Longer it goes, worse it gets (and I think it will go on long):
https://www.nreionline.com/finance-inve ... us-economy
The economy or the wall:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics ... index.html

Consumer confidence plunging:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/busi ... onomy.html
Other problems of the shutdown:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... orkers-gdp
Shutdown is economic self-harm:
https://www.economist.com/united-states ... -self-harm

Many optimists seem to be linearly extrapolating the economic effects of earlier shutdowns. But shutdown effects grow exponentially, not linearly. And IMHO Trump and the Democrats are playing chicken, and I think they are both stubborn enough to collide.

Where we are now:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/20/politics ... index.html
Meanwhile
Will the Shutdown depress the economy?
https://seekingalpha.com/article/423432 ... ss-economy
https://seekingalpha.com/article/423432 ... omy?page=2
https://seekingalpha.com/article/423432 ... omy?page=3
Also
Shutdown threatens US dollar:
https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-govern ... 1901202201
43.6 million get there last food stamps till "Openup":
https://thedailycoin.org/2019/01/18/the ... few-weeks/

Shutdown could cause recession (video):
https://thedailycoin.org/2019/01/16/gov ... ion-video/
and as it mentions, the debt ceiling will be the next mess.
Dems weakening?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cracks ... d-shutdown
Administration warns 0% growth Q1:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... my-1120921
Will SOTU speech weaken Trump?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/do ... aa26be7e3c
Feb 1 deadline for Judiciary:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... wn-1119974
Deal within two weeks?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gover ... 2019-01-22
Long time till March food stamps:
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/4264 ... n-february
38 million SNAP people face hunger:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/go ... 6936760e94
NTSB: 87 accidents not investigated:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics ... index.html
TSA workers suffering:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics ... index.html
Smithsonian losing $1,000,000.00/week:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/us/smith ... index.html
Coast Guard admiral lashes out:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... wn-1120190
Boeing, aviation industry hurt:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/boeing- ... ustry.html

Commerce Secretary: Fed workers should get loans:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/busi ... tdown.html
Fed worker unemployment claims soar:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... nt-1111201
Administration preparing for indefinite duration:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... wn-n961961
Shutdown threatens to break air travel:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/n ... 663071002/
Small transit threatened:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... ng-1107192
Costs mount, no end in sight:
https://www.nextgov.com/podcasts/2019/0 ... nt/154387/
Morgan Stanley CEO: Extremely negative:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-s ... 00883.html
Trump is at fault:
https://theweek.com/articles/819270/tim ... down-trump
The Democrats are at fault:
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/o ... 595878002/
"The surgery to remove the lung cancer is on hold":
http://time.com/5506227/government-shut ... cal-bills/
Grassroots Republicans back Trump on Shutdown:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... n-drags-on
35 hidden costs:
https://www.vox.com/2019/1/24/18188621/ ... dden-costs

This might be just an intermission:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opin ... termission

Is this Trump's real strategy?
https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... _odds.html