How the government shutdown is impacting the economy

Okay, so on Wednesday we're going to set a new record and it is not a good one. It would be the record for the longest government shutdown in American history. Currently that title is being held by the 2018 2019 government shutdown which lasted 35 days.And there's some real economic cost to this. So in that particular shutdown, there was an estimated 375,000 federal workers that were furoughed. You can imagine the strain it would put on all of those households with paychecks not clearing.And for that reason ...