Shutdown or No Shutdown, the US Is Still a Mess
The Trump administration faces a trio of festering issues — tariffs, inflation and immigration enforcement — that won’t disappear overnight.
Not the type of history you want to make.
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We’ve reached Day 41 of this shutdown, which means it’s officially outlasted Noah’s flood, Amazon Prime’s free trial period, many celebrity marriages and the average incubation period for an ostrich egg. I hope for everyone’s sake — especially those who have gone without food assistance and paychecks — that we won’t need to update this embarrassing chart for much longer: