what's the government shutdown in the USA?why did it happen? how much loss did it result in? form when to when it happened most recently?
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As the partial government shutdown continues into its fourth week, the members of the Coast Guard are the latest group of government employees – and the only active-duty service members – forced to work without pay.
Unlike the other four branches of the military, the Coast Guard, which is tasked with ensuring the safety and security of our waterways and coastlines, falls under the department of Homeland Security, not the Department of Defense. Because of this logistical difference, most of the 42,000 active-duty Coast Guard members did not draw a paycheck on January 15.
At the USO, our daily mission is to support service members and military families and adapt when they need us the most. That’s why, in the face of a continued government shutdown, we are supporting the Coasties and their families.
USO centers across the country have stepped up to assist the Coast Guard by reducing the hardship brought on by the shutdown. This has included extending hours of USO centers, where service members and their families can take advantage of programs and services, as well as increasing meal programs and rallying local communities to find ways to show their support.
For Coasties stationed near Boston, USO New England has been coordinating support from local businesses to provide free meals for them and their families. Similarly, USO Houston has been working with generous donors in the Southeast Texas area to provide Coast Guard members with groceries, everyday necessities and baby care items.
One Houston-area donor even stopped by USO Houston with hundreds of dollars’ worth of gift cards to a local grocery store, explaining to Coast Guard members at the center that eight years ago, “Y’all saved my life out on the water,” and that he was there to return the favor for the work they do.
“The main things we’ve been asked for are baby formula and diapers, which is heartbreaking,” said Lorén Westerfield, the director of USO Houston. “Luckily, thanks to the great support we have in Houston, we’ve been able to meet some of the needs of our Coast Guard families, but the work goes on.”
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The United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019 occurred from midnight EST on December 22, 2018 until January 25, 2019 (35 days). It was the longest U.S. government shutdown in history,[4][5][6] and the second[a] federal government shutdown involving furloughs during the presidency of Donald Trump. It occurred when the 115th United States Congress and Donald Trump could not agree on an appropriations bill to fund the operations of the federal government for the 2019 fiscal year, or a temporary continuing resolution that would extend the deadline for passing a bill. The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal departments or agencies from conducting non-essential operations without appropriations legislation in place. As a result, nine executive departments with around 800,000 employees had to shut down partially or in full, affecting about one-fourth of government activities and causing employees to be furloughed or required to work without being paid.[7] The Congressional Budget Office estimated the shutdown cost the American economy at least $11 billion, excluding indirect costs that were difficult to quantify.[8]
The shutdown stemmed from an impasse over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion in federal funds for a U.S.–Mexico border wall.[9][10][11] In December 2018, the Republican-controlled Senate unanimously passed an appropriations bill without wall funding, and the bill appeared likely to be approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Trump. After Trump faced heavy criticism from some right-wing media outlets and pundits for appearing to back down on his campaign promise to "build the wall", he announced that he would not sign any appropriations bill that did not fund its construction. As a result, the House passed a stopgap bill with funding for the wall, but it was blocked in the Senate by the threat of a Democratic filibuster.[12]
In January 2019, representatives elected in the November 2018 election took office, giving the Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives. The House immediately voted to approve the appropriations bill that had previously passed the Senate unanimously (which included no funding for the wall). For several weeks, Trump continued to maintain that he would veto any bill that did not fund an entire border wall, and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked the Senate from considering any appropriations legislation that Trump would not support, including the bill that had previously passed.[13][14] Democrats and some Republicans opposed the shutdown and passed multiple bills to reopen the government, arguing that the government shutdown amounted to "hostage-taking" civil servants and that negotiations could only begin once the government was reopened.[15][16][17][18]
On January 25, 2019, Trump agreed to endorse a stopgap bill to reopen the government for three weeks up until February 15 to allow for negotiations to take place to approve an appropriations bill that both parties could agree on.[19] However, Trump reiterated his demand for the border wall funding and said that he would shut down the government again or declare a national emergency and use military funding to build the wall if Congress did not appropriate the funds by February 15.[19][20]
Trump's approval rating decreased significantly during the shutdown.[21][22] A majority of Americans opposed exploitation of the shutdown as a negotiating strategy and held Trump responsible for the shutdown: A CBS News poll found that 71% of Americans considered the border wall "not worth the shutdown"[23] and a poll by The Washington Post and ABC News found that 53% of Americans blamed Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, compared to 34% who blamed Democrats and 10% who blamed both parties.[24]
On February 15, 2019, Donald Trump declared a national emergency in order to bypass the United States Congress, after being unsatisfied with a bipartisan border bill that had passed the House of Representatives and the Senate a day before.[25]