Will it make any difference that most people can see? Last time it really didn't.
During the government shutdown in 2013, some $2.2 billion in Internal Revenue Service refunds to individual taxpayers were delayed.
The Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, and Veterans Affairs are funded until October 2019 and do not need action in an appropriations bill. Among the seven bills still needed, those for agriculture, financial services and general government, interior and the environment, and transportation, housing and urban development look easiest to pass, while bills covering commerce, justice and science as well as homeland security “are the political land mines, with the Mueller investigation related to the former and the [Mexico] wall with the latter,” Goldwein said.
Lawmakers don’t necessarily have to pass the seven appropriations bill and get them signed into law by Trump in order to avoid the partial shutdown. Instead, Congress could again avoid a partial closure with a temporary fix — that is, a continuing resolution, or “CR” — that ensures all parts of the federal budget remain funded.
What difference will a govt. shutdown make related to homeland security? We will see.
What else is effected by the shutdown? The FDA Inspectors. How well are they doing their jobs while they are paid?
Anything that is funded by the govt. which is shutdown can have an impact, but when even our food supply is being effected while there is funding, it would only get worse.
[Edited on 12/17/2018 by gina]
[Edited on 12/17/2018 by gina]
