The effects of the federal government shutdown of 2018-19 still linger a year later, particularly on the federal workforce.
“One hopes they learned something – that shutting down the government is the equivalent of burning your house down, and no one won,” said Max Stier, president and chief executive officer of theA quarter of the federal government shut down last Dec. 22 and remained shuttered through the following Jan. 25 because of a
Not members of Congress, who have introduced various pieces of legislation to avoid another shutdown. Oneby Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., would automatically fund the government at existing levels if a new budget isn’t in place at the beginning of a fiscal year and would force lawmakers to stay in Washington until a new spending bill is signed into law.
The result was “a steady diet of stories and images of the toll that the shutdown was taking across the country,” the report said. “Members of Congress from every corner of our country encountered constituents who were harmed by the shutdown personally or alarmed by the toll it was taking on their friends, neighbors and community.
The aviation industry also was hit hard by the shutdown, which delayed various airport construction projects and communications systems upgrades and disrupted the hiring and training of air traffic controllers. Air travelers faced significant problems as flights were grounded or delayed because of a lack of air traffic controllers.
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