Much of the immediate effect will be felt on the domestic front—the U.S. jobs report due to be released this Friday will be delayed, visitors to U.S. national parks will see a severely diminished staff presence beyond essential law enforcement and protective functions, flights may get delayed if essential but unpaid air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration workers choose to stay home or call in sick, and furloughs at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will impact basic research and disease monitoring.
The U.S. federal government shut down for the first time in nearly seven years on Wednesday after Democratic and Republican lawmakers were unable to agree on a spending deal, bringing key government services grinding to a halt and furloughing hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
The U.S. federal government shut down for the first time in nearly seven years on Wednesday after Democratic and Republican lawmakers were unable to agree on a spending deal, bringing key government services grinding to a halt and
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