Taxpayers on the hook for $400 million per day for partial shutdown

(The Center Square) – Each day the federal government remains closed will cost U.S. taxpayers about $400 million just in salary for about 750,000 furloughed federal workers.

Workers won't collect that backpay until after they return to work when the shutdown ends, upending the lives of federal employees and their families for an uncertain period of time. Congress showed Wednesday that it was no closer to ending the ordeal.

Americans living outside Washington D.C. might not immediately notice that the massive federal government has partially shutdown, but the longer the government stays closed, the more the shutdown could affect people.

"In general, a longer lapse will have larger effects than a shorter one will," the Congressional Budget Office noted in a recent letter to Congress.

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