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Here Are The Facts Of Trump's Government Shutdown politicususa.com/2019/01/01/her… via @politicususa
On Thursday, Democrats intend to vote on a two-part package to end the shutdown. Its prospects in the Senate and with Trump were uncertain.
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HOMELAND SECURITY
The dept that oversees Customs and Border Protection, ICE, the Transportation Security Admin, the Coast Guard and the Secret Service is affected. 213K of 245K employees are deemed “essential,” so are working w/o pay until a funding bill is passed.#TrumpShutdown

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Only about 340 of they 7,500 employees are working (and no one is getting paid).
“a protracted shutdown could see a decline in home sales, reversing the trend toward a strengthening market that we’ve been experiencing”
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COMMERCE DEPARTMENT
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau are not publishing economic data during the shutdown, including key figures on gross domestic product, inflation, personal income, spending, trade and new home sales
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
The agency that oversees the federal workforce has offered advice to workers on how to deal with landlords, mortgage lenders and other creditors.

Someone should advise #TrumpResign.

COAST GUARD
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard were due to receive their final paychecks of the year on Monday. That paycheck will be their last until the government reopens.
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FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was to resume issuing new flood ins policies during the shutdown, reversing an earlier decision. Natl Assoc of Realtors estimated an earlier decision to stop issuing new policies could have disrupted up to 40K home sales each month.

INTERIOR
The National Park Service, under the umbrella of the Interior Department, is operating with a skeleton staff. The National Park Service is providing no visitor services such as restrooms, facility and road maintenance and trash collection.
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TRANSPORTATION
Of the dept’s 55K employees, 20,400 have been put on leave. Those do not include most of the FAA, where 24,200 are working, or the Fed Highway Admin, where all 2,700 employees are funded through other sources.

Mitch's wife Elaine is Sec'y of Transportation.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
An estimated 1,100 of the office’s 1,800 employees are on leave. This includes most of the Office of Management and Budget, which helps implement budget and policy goals.
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