Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 52
Fix the dysfunction in Washington
Broken“[paraphrase] I alone can fix it.”
- Promised
- , Republican National Convention acceptance speech, Cleveland
- Re-promised
- 10 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Other
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
The federal government shut down three times during the term, including the longest shutdown in U.S. history, 35 days from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019, over border wall funding. Roughly 800,000 federal workers went without pay and the Congressional Budget Office estimated a $11 billion hit to GDP, $3 billion of it permanent.