🚨🇺🇸The US government has officially entered a shutdown – the first since December 2018 and the 22nd in the nation’s history.
Here’s what a government shutdown really means:
A shutdown doesn’t stop the entire government.
👉 Essential services like military, border security, air traffic control, Medicare continue to operate.
👉 But hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed without pay, national parks and museums close, and many agencies halt operations.
Markets usually brush it off at the start. But if the shutdown drags on, it can slow economic growth, delay key data releases, and dent investor confidence.
It’s not the first day that matters, it’s how long it lasts.
