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The longest authorities shutdown successful modern U.S. past came to a adjacent Wednesday nighttime erstwhile President Trump signed a measure to money the authorities done Jan. 30 — ending a 43-day-long impasse that had imperiled aerial question and near thousands without paychecks.
The ordeal began successful precocious September, aft the GOP-led House passed a measure that would person kept the authorities moving done Nov. 21. The measure failed to marque it retired of the Senate, though, arsenic astir Democrats pushed for an hold of expiring wellness security taxation credits.
Senate Republicans were incapable to garner the enactment they needed until Monday, erstwhile a radical of Democrats crossed the aisle and voted to reopen the authorities until precocious January successful speech for a abstracted Senate ballot connected the wellness security credits. The House passed the measure 2 days later, besides with immoderate Democrats' support, sending it to Mr. Trump's desk.
Here's a look astatine the authorities shutdown by the numbers:
14: Number of failed Senate votes connected backing the government
Starting successful mid-September, the Senate held 14 failed votes to beforehand the House-passed solution to money the authorities until precocious November — keeping the authorities closed for upward of a period with small movement.
The Senate has 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and 2 independents who caucus with the Democrats. Until past weekend, determination were arsenic galore arsenic 55 votes successful favour of backing the government, 5 abbreviated of the 60 needed to determination the measure forward.
The Senate requires lone a elemental bulk of 51 votes to walk astir legislation. But the Senate's filibuster regularisation efficaciously requires astir each authorities — including the House's continuing solution to temporarily money the authorities — to scope a 60-vote threshold first. A azygous legislator whitethorn hold a measure during statement by invoking a filibuster, which tin lone beryllium ended if a supermajority of 60 senators votes to extremity debate.
Then, connected Nov. 9, a deal to extremity the shutdown yet came together, with a radical of 7 Democrats and 1 autarkic who caucuses with Democrats agreeing to beforehand a backing measurement arsenic portion of a broader agreement. On a 15th vote, the measure yet precocious with 60 senators voting to extremity debate. The Senate passed the measure a time later, connected Nov. 10.
52: Senate Republicans supporting solution to money the authorities and extremity the shutdown
1: Number of Senate Republicans who opposed the bill
GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is the lone Republican joining astir Democratic senators successful voting against advancing the solution to money the government. He said he opposes the measurement due to the fact that it adds to the nation's rising debt.
3: Senate Democrats/independents who supported the archetypal solution to money the government
Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada repeatedly voted with Republicans successful enactment of the measure, arsenic did autarkic Sen. Angus King of Maine.
8: Senate Democrats/independents who voted to money the authorities connected Nov. 10
On Nov. 9, King and Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire struck a woody with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the White House to extremity the shutdown.
The woody attached a trio of full-year backing bills to authorities that volition reopen the authorities until Jan. 30, portion restoring nutrient assistance astatine higher levels, and paving the mode for a bipartisan appropriations process connected different spending bills. And it reversed each authorities layoffs that occurred during the shutdown, portion preventing them for a constricted clip going forward.
As portion of the deal, Thune besides agreed to clasp a ballot successful December connected the Affordable Care Act taxation credits.
Eight members of the Democratic caucus voted for the bill: Fetterman, Cortez Masto, King, Shaheen and Hassan, arsenic good arsenic Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Jackie Rosen of Nevada.
6: House Democrats who voted to extremity the shutdown
Six mostly mean House Democrats voted successful favour of the Senate-passed woody to extremity the shutdown erstwhile the House took up the measure connected Nov. 12: Reps. Jared Golden of Maine, Adam Gray of California, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, Don Davis of North Carolina, Henry Cuellar of Texas and Tom Suozzi of New York.
All six correspond plaything districts, and Golden was the lone Democrat to ballot successful favour of the House GOP's archetypal backing bundle successful September.
2: House Republicans who voted against backing bill
During the Nov. 12 vote, Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Greg Steube of Florida voted no.
42 million: The fig of radical who stood to beryllium chopped disconnected from afloat nutrient stamp benefits connected Nov. 1
Roughly 42 cardinal Americans trust connected food stamps that get each period connected their physics payment transportation cards, according to information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the USDA said past period that backing for the benefits, known arsenic the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, had tally retired owed to the shutdown.
A USDA authoritative overseeing SNAP said successful a tribunal filing past week that benefits were expected to beryllium reduced by 35% successful November.
On Oct. 28, 25 states asked a national justice successful Massachusetts to bid the Agriculture Department to supply benefits done the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for November, including by tapping into a contingency money to guarantee the assistance continues to travel to much than 25 cardinal radical surviving wrong their states' borders.
A national justice successful Rhode Island ordered the USDA to usage that contingency fund, which the Trump medication appealed. On Nov. 9, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson granted a stay connected behalf of the court, blocking the little court's bid that the medication transportation immoderate $4 cardinal from different nutrient information programs to SNAP payments.
After the enactment was issued, the USDA ordered states to "immediately undo immoderate steps" that were taken to supply afloat SNAP benefits. On Monday, with Congress connected the cusp of a deal, the enactment was extended.
$9.2 billion: The outgo of backing nutrient stamps for November
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins estimated it would outgo astir $9.2 cardinal to support SNAP benefits flowing done November. The Agriculture Department's contingency money has astir $5 billion, which Rollins has argued the medication doesn't person the ineligible quality to use.
Some lawmakers from some parties called for standalone authorities to money SNAP.
At slightest 670,000: Government workers who person been furloughed since the shutdown began
According to the Bipartisan Policy Center's investigation of regular Treasury statements and the center's ain workforce estimates, astatine slightest 670,000 national employees are furloughed. The Congressional Budget Office estimated successful September that compensation for furloughed workers is astir $400 cardinal per day.
About 730,000: Federal employees who worked without pay
Government workers who are determined to beryllium indispensable are inactive working, albeit without pay, and determination are astir 730,000 of these employees, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Over 4,000: Federal workers the authorities disclosed it was trying to laic disconnected during shutdown
On Oct. 28, a justice indefinitely barred the Trump medication from firing authorities employees owed to the shutdown portion a suit challenging the effort makes its mode done the courts.
In mid-October, the medication had already sent "reduction successful force" layoff notices to much than 4,000 national employees crossed 7 agencies.
Here are the approximate numbers:
As portion of the last bipartisan Senate deal, a proviso was added that reversed immoderate layoffs during the shutdown. The solution besides says that "no national funds whitethorn beryllium used" to behaviour layoffs betwixt present and Jan. 30.
$130 million: The backstage donation Trump says he's utilized to assistance wage the military
President Trump says an unnamed "patriot" donated $130 cardinal to money troops' paychecks, which are usually chopped disconnected during shutdowns. The New York Times reported that the donor is Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and scion to the Mellon household banking fortune.
That nine-figure cheque apt isn't capable to screen the military's full payroll. There are astir 1.3 million active-duty work members, truthful the donation comes retired to astir $100 per person.
At slightest $7 billion: The economical outgo of the shutdown
The shutdown could temporarily chopped the nation's economical output by billions of dollars arsenic unpaid national workers curtail their spending and SNAP benefits are paused, starring to a 1-percentage-point GDP driblet if the shutdown lasts 4 weeks and a 2-point dip if it drags connected for 8 weeks, the Congressional Budget Office said successful an Oct. 29 estimate.
Much of that diminution volition beryllium reversed aft the authorities reopens and the spigot of national spending turns backmost connected — but not each of it. The GDP volition look a sustained driblet of $7 cardinal aft a four-week shutdown, $11 cardinal aft six weeks and $14 cardinal aft 8 weeks, the CBO says.
This communicative has been updated to close the magnitude of the longest erstwhile shutdown; it was 35 days.
Stefan Becket, Taylor Johnston and John Kelly contributed to this report.
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