Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) asked the CBO last week for a detailed analysis of the economic costs of the government shutdown, including disruptions to small businesses, lost revenue, delayed wages for military servicemembers, and long-term fallout. The analysis found that significant disruption would take place, including paying hundreds of thousands of workers for not working.
Specifically, the CBO found that 750,000 federal workers would be paid $400 million per day of the shutdown despite not working.
“It has only been two days, but the ‘Schumer Shutdown’ is already racking up quite the bill for taxpayers,” Ernst told the Washington Examiner. “So far, $800 million has been wasted paying 750,000 federal employees to sit at home and not work, and each day Democrats drag this on, another $400
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