|
Economic data releases that have lagged during the government shutdown likely will take some time to get rolling again.
|
RELATED ARTICLES | | |
|
Flight Delays and Cancellations Won't Immediately Stop When Government Shutdown Ends The New York TimesTrump says he's 'not happy' with air traffic controllers who wouldn't work without pay during shutdown NBC NewsThe government might reopen this week, but it will take airports months to recover Colorado Public RadioTrump scolds air traffic controllers and blames rivals for economy in interview The Guardian
|
|
Late Night Is Disappointed in Democrats Over Shutdown Deal The New York TimesSchumer didn't vote for bill to reopen the government. He's facing liberal fury anyway. CNNAnalysis | Shutdown deal highlights Democrats' most consequential divide The Washington Post‘Schumer is no longer effective': Dems outraged over shutdown deal Politico
|
|
It's up to the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress to decide when full payments will resume under the SNAP food aid program that helps 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries, as some wonder how they will feed their families without government assistance.
|
|
What a Government Shutdown Solution Hasn't Solved The New York TimesFunding bill heads to House but government shutdown could impact air travel for months CNNLive updates: Senate OKs shutdown deal; Donald Trump to mark Veterans Day The HillSenate approves deal to end shutdown with Democrats riven by splits - US politics live The Guardian
|
|
Plug Power has dropped out of a government loan program, deciding it was more cost-effective to pay for hydrogen supply than to build its own network. Analysts agree.
|
|
The FAA plans to curb private-jet traffic at 12 major U.S. airports starting Monday.
|
|
The senators — eight in total — faced almost instant blowback from Democrats as they broke ranks and voted to allow the Senate to move forward on compromise legislation that would reopen the government.
|
|
Flight delays and cancellations piled up in recent days as air traffic controller staffing shortages worsen in the government shutdown.
|
|
U.S. stock futures gained Sunday, despite coming off the worst week for tech stocks since April, as investors clung to indications that a deal may be in the works to end the government shutdown.
|
|
Main image:
WHAT are Republican lawmakers in politics to achieve? Not many years ago, at the peak of their outrage over Barack Obama''s economic stimulus package, 'balanced budgets' might have featured in the answer. But the frenzied passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through Congress has revealed the insincerity of the party''s fiscal moralising. Republicans in Congress do not oppose government borrowing when it suits them. Rather, the overarching policy objective that unifies them is cutting taxes—and damn the fiscal consequences. Following the passage of the tax bill through the Senate in the early hours of December 2nd, Republicans are on the brink of achieving their goal.On November 30th budget scorekeepers unveiled a forecast for how much extra economic growth the tax bill might spark: enough to pay for about one third of its $1.5trn cost. Previously, Republicans might have viewed this projection as a triumph. They have long pressed for budget forecasts to include such 'dynamic' effects (see blog). But the score briefly seemed to imperil the bill. It undermined the absurd claim, made by the Republican leadership and the Trump administration, that tax cuts would pay for themselves in full. No serious economist ever thought this credible. Yet the official score seemed to blow Republicans'' ...
|
|
