Government shutdown cost economy nearly $6billion, 300 million more than what Trump wanted for his border wall
Standard & Poor, a financial rating agency, released a report on Friday, analyzing how the US economy was impacted because of the shutdown, said to be the longest in US history
The partial government shutdown, which lasted for 35 days and ended on Friday, reportedly cost the country's economy at least $6billion, slightly more than the $5.7billion sum President Donald Trump had demanded for his border wall and the reason he shut down the government.
Standard & Poor, a financial rating agency, released a report on Friday, analyzing how the US economy was impacted because of the shutdown, which was recorded as the longest government shutdown in the history of the United States. It rendered over 800,000 federal workers furloughed without their paychecks as they struggled to make ends meet.