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Every year now huh?
by throwaway889900 5y ago
Every year now huh?
- kahrl 5y ago2018-2019 (President Donald Trump): December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019 - 34 days 2018 (President Donald Trump): January 20 to January 23 - 3 days 2018 (President Donald Trump): February 9 – 1 day. 2013 (President Barack Obama): October 1 to October. 17 - 16 days 1995-1996 (President Bill Clinton): December 16, 1995, to January 6, 1996, - 21 days 1995 (President Bill Clinton): Nov. 14 to 19 - 5 days 1990 (President George H.W. Bush): October 5 to 9 - 3 days 1987 (President Ronald Reagan): December 18 to December 20 - 1 day 1986 (President Ronald Reagan): October 16 to October 18 - 1 day 1984 (President Ronald Reagan): October 3 to October 5 - 1 day 1984 (President Ronald Reagan): September 30 to October 3 - 2 days 1983 (President Ronald Reagan): November 10 to November 14 - 3 days 1982 (President Ronald Reagan): December 17 to December 21 - 3 days 1982 (President Ronald Reagan): September 30 to October 2 - 1 day 1981 (President Ronald Reagan): November 20 to November 23 - 2 days 1979 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 to October 12 - 11 days 1978 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 to October 18 18 days 1977 (President Jimmy Carter): November 30 to December 9 - 8 days 1977 (President Jimmy Carter): October 31 to November 9 - 8 days 1977 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 to October 13 - 12 days 1976 (President Gerald Ford): September 30 to October 11 - 10 days
- cybernautique 5y agoThanks, great breakdown! Where did you source this from?
- kinghajj 5y agoSo what happened between 1996 and 2013 to make the debt ceiling not a perennial issue?
- shadowgovt 5y agoThe shutdown of '96 was remembered as a key issue that drove voters to the polls and cost the Republicans a chance to unseat Clinton for a second term. After that, they lost their taste for it during the remainder of his Presidency. It may have continued from 2001 onward, but September 11 caused massive realignment in political strategy for years; anyone seen as causing the government's basic functions to stumble while terrorists threatened America would have suffered a colossal political black-eye. I couldn't guess off the top of my head why 2013 became the year Congressional leadership decided this was a game worth playing again.
- Denvercoder9 5y agoNo split control of Congress.
- kahrl 5y agoClinton left office with federal budget surplus. Bush 2.0 started decades long global conflicts. On top of that, Republicans controlled the House and Senate for almost the entire period from 1997 to 2013. There wasn't a split congress. The next shutdown to occur was a show of Republican chest beating in protest of ACA funding.
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- handrous 5y agoShutdowns only, with descriptions of them following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States#List_of_federal_shutdowns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un... All US funding gaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_funding_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_... (this is not in contradiction of the parent poster—just providing convenient further-reading links for others)
- kahrl 5y agoty, if I could fit those charts into a comment here I would.