CBO: Government Shutdown Cost Economy $3 Billion That Isn’t Coming Back
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The partial government shutdown may be over, but its economic ramifications are not — in fact, some of the costs of the five-week shutdown will never be recovered.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Monday estimated that the shutdown cost the economy $11 billion. Most of that will be recovered, but not all of it: The CBO said that some $3 billion in economic activity has been permanently lost.
And not everyone felt the effects equally. The report said that the shutdown had “much more significant effects on individual businesses and workers” than the overall economy.
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