What Is a Government Shutdown?

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 12:48:49 +0000

In October 2025 the United States federal government stopped funding itself for 43 days — the longest shutdown in the country’s history, beating the previous record of 35 days set in the winter of 2018–19. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees went unpaid, national parks emptied of staff, and air-traffic controllers kept working shifts with no salary arriving. It was not a coup, not a hack, not a natural disaster. It was, in the driest possible sense, a paperwork failure: Congress did not pass a bill, and a nineteenth-century law meant that once the money ran out, large parts of the government were legally obliged to stop working.

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What Is a Government Shutdown?