Government Shutdown: The Sequel
The government briefly shut down again. Why did it happen this time? Credit: Hill Street Studios/Betty Mallorca/Blend Images LLC
This week’s story update on the Election Central Web site explains the latest funding disagreement that almost led to another shutdown of the federal government.
Just three weeks after the federal government shut down for five days, it shut down again. This time, though, you may have missed it: it shut down at 12:01am last Friday and was reopened again by the next morning. Here, Election Central takes a look at the events leading up to the second government shut down of 2018, and why it ended so quickly.
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