How Government Shutdowns Work

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Every year Congress decides how the federal government will spend money. Simple enough, but in practice politics tend to mess it up. Sometimes it gets so messy the budget doesn’t get passed and parts of the government shut down. Then the hurting begins.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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