Sunday, 27 January 2019

Trump signs bill to end $6bn shutdown and temporarily reopen government

Measure will fund government for three weeks after US economy lost more than the $5.7bn funding president requested for wall

Donald Trump has signed legislation to end temporarily the longest-ever partial shutdown of the US government, which has left hundreds of thousands of federal employees without pay for more than a month.

The US economy lost $6bn during the month-plus hiatus because of lost productivity and business, according to a finance industry estimate – more than the $5.7bn of taxpayer funding the president demanded for his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border but failed to get Congress to agree to.

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2CH7JfM

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