Brian Cheung is a business and data correspondent for NBC News.
If the government shuts down days before Christmas, holiday travel could be hit but holiday shipping spared. By Friday morning, lawmakers were still scrambling to reach a deal that would avoid a U.S. government shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, after President-elect Donald Trump throttled a bipartisan funding bill Wednesday. There hasn't been a government shutdown since 2019 — under the Trump administration. That 35-day budget standoff cost the U.S.
As a shutdown neared in September 2023 — before being resolved just hours before it was set to begin — the Postal Service clarified that it would be able to deliver packages uninterrupted. However, the deadline for deliveries to arrive by Christmas Day has already passed this year for ground advantage and first-class mail. The Christmas cutoff date for priority mail express is fast approaching, at Dec. 21.
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