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Here’s a timeline of all 21 U.S. federal government shutdowns since 1976, with dates, duration, presidents, and causes:
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📊 U.S. Government Shutdowns (1976–2019)
1.Sep 30 – Oct 11, 1976 — 10 days — Gerald Ford — Funding dispute over spending cuts
2.Sep 30 – Oct 13, 1977 — 12 days — Jimmy Carter — Abortion funding limits
3.Oct 31 – Nov 9, 1977 — 8 days — Jimmy Carter — Abortion funding limits
4.Nov 30 – Dec 9, 1977 — 8 days — Jimmy Carter — Abortion funding limits
5.Sep 30 – Oct 18, 1978 — 18 days — Jimmy Carter — Defense funding & abortion limits
6.Sep 30 – Oct 12, 1979 — 11 days — Jimmy Carter — Defense spending & abortion funding
7.Nov 20 – Nov 23, 1981 — 2 days — Ronald Reagan — Cuts to defense & domestic spending
8.Sep 30 – Oct 2, 1982 — 1 day — Ronald Reagan — Dispute over MX missile & Nicaraguan aid
9.Dec 17 – Dec 21, 1982 — 3 days — Ronald Reagan — House vs Senate spending differences
10.Nov 10 – Nov 14, 1983 — 3 days — Ronald Reagan — Funding for MX missile
11.Sep 30 – Oct 3, 1984 — 2 days — Ronald Reagan — Disputes over crime bill & water projects
12.Oct 3 – Oct 5, 1984 — 1 day — Ronald Reagan — Continuing disputes from above
13.Oct 16 – Oct 18, 1986 — 1 day — Ronald Reagan — Welfare & water projects
14.Dec 18 – Dec 20, 1987 — 1 day — Ronald Reagan — Contra aid & defense
15.Oct 5 – Oct 9, 1990 — 3 days — George H.W. Bush — Budget deficit reduction & taxes
16.Nov 13 – Nov 19, 1995 — 5 days — Bill Clinton — Medicare, education, environment cuts
17.Dec 15, 1995 – Jan 6, 1996 — 21 days — Bill Clinton — Balanced budget disagreement
18.Sep 30 – Oct 1, 2013 — 16 days — Barack Obama — Affordable Care Act funding (Obamacare)
19.Jan 20 – Jan 22, 2018 — 3 days — Donald Trump — Immigration & DACA
20.Feb 9, 2018 — <1 day — Donald Trump — Budget caps & military funding
21.Dec 22, 2018 – Jan 25, 2019 — 35 days — Donald Trump — Border wall funding
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✅ Total: 21 shutdowns.
⚠️ Longest: 35 days (2018–2019).
⚡ Most shutdowns: During Reagan (8 total, though many were short).
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📢 🇬🇧 🥫 Britain has urged households to stock enough water, non-perishable food and medicine to be self-sufficient for three days, launching a new “Be Ready” preparedness campaign.
Government guidance recommends about three liters of drinking water per person per day, food that needs no refrigeration or cooking, essential medications, a first-aid kit, a torch, a battery or wind-up radio, a charged power bank and cash.
Officials cited severe storms, wildfires, cyberattacks and supply chain disruptions as the main risks, with Defence Secretary Wes Streeting pointing to “increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks” and scenarios such as supermarket payment systems going down.
Germany has long gone further, recommending households keep emergency supplies for 10 days, including about two liters of liquid per person per day.
📝 ReadyGuidance: "Worth noting the US version of this advice, at Ready.gov, is one gallon of water per person per day, about 3.8 liters, because ...
🇮🇹 Italy Experiences Food and Fuel Shortages After Truckers on Strike Block Roads. 90% of gas stations in Campania are out of fuel
Truckers protesting high gas prices have prevented deliveries to parts of southern Italy, leading to empty shelves and dry pumps.
On Wednesday night in Naples, Italy, a 72-year-old retiree walked into a supermarket to buy himself a snack and found it nearly bare.
It was out of milk, yogurt and eggs. Its shelves of pasta, oils and canned tomatoes were almost empty. The vast produce section was empty save for red onions, chestnuts, two melons and a case of ornamental gourds.
“It’s worse than I expected,” said Giuseppe Crisci, the retiree, who walked out with a bag of biscuits. “And what I expected was exceptional.”
Experiences like Mr. Crisci’s played out repeatedly this week across Naples, a sprawling port city in Italy’s south where residents faced widespread shortages at their gas pumps and grocery stores.
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🇺🇸🗳⚡️- RN's Midterm Forecast With A Week And A Half To Go 3/3:
Why we think this election will be the first real nail in the coffin for Trumpism.
It has been said so many times it's become a meme, “the walls are closing in” “No way he wiggles out of this jam!” etc. This time it's not a joke, the armor that Trump has had around him for a decade is clearly slipping off.
Trump’s approval by his own 2024 voters continues to rapidly decline, damaged by the nonstop rampant corruption and the Iran War.
Trump approval within the GOP, despite remaining strong on paper, is actually at its lowest since 2015 before he won the 2016 primary. The Iran War in particular has nuked his bedrock fanatical support within the GOP base when looking at not only surveys but also via multiple anecdotes on AM radio talk shows who get callers every day saying they feel betrayed by the war, and that the corruption is becoming unignorable.
GOP activists at the local level are also reporting to their ...
