What's their deal with Ukraine funding? Is it because of Trump's bromance with Putin?
320 million people live in the US, this is how us voters will be effected.
The White House is sounding alarms about massive disruptions to air travel as tens of thousands of air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration personnel work without pay. During the 2019 shutdown, hundreds of TSA officers called out from work – many of them to find other ways to make money.
The White House has also warned of shutdown impacts to national security, including the 1.3 million active-duty troops who would not get paid during a shutdown.
The shutdown would have a big impact on the Internal Revenue Service and its ability to service taxpayers, according to the contingency plan that the Treasury Department released on Thursday.
Most core tax administration functions would stop, and about two-thirds of IRS employees – about 60,000 people – would be furloughed.
The agency would not process refunds, except in cases where e-filed, error-free refunds could be direct-deposited automatically.
The National Park Service plans to close most US national parks in the event of a shutdown, following lessons learned in past shutdowns, with trash piling up, toilets overflowing and visitors committing acts of vandalism while the park service’s workforce was reduced.
“Nearly 7 million pregnant moms, new mothers and young children count on WIC every single day to receive support,” Vilsack told reporters at the White House earlier this week. “With a shutdown, what we would see across the United States is a denial of those benefits and opportunities. In some cases, it would be literally within a matter of days after the shutdown. In some cases it may be in some states, it may be literally in a matter of weeks. But clearly, during the course of a shutdown, millions of those moms, babies and young children would see a lack of nutrition assistance.”
