How shutdown pain is spreading throughout the economy

It knows neither party nor geography

A protester.
(Image credit: Illustrated | Mark Makela/Getty Images, gonin/iStock)

The causes of the ongoing government shutdown may be partisan. Its effects are certainly not.

Across red states and blue states, big cities and farmland, the weeks-long cutoff to the economic blood flow is making itself felt. And with Congressional Democrats and President Trump engaged in all-out political trench warfare over the president’s demand for a wall at the border, the shutdown — already the longest in U.S. history — shows no signs of ending anytime soon.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.