Government Shutdown

NBC News’ article, “Sorry, we’re closed: Government shutdown ripples across the country,” published on October 1, 2013, written by Matthew DeLuca, it describes how many of the general population were affected when Congress members failed to reach a consensus regarding the government’s finances and budgets. The Senate rejected laws proposed by the Republican portion of the House, which led to delays in the cancellation of the Affordable Care Act. This shutdown lasted sixteen days, which angered many

Trust and the U.S. Federal Government Shutdown Amy Price Arizona State University Abstract This trust paper explores the 2013 United States Federal Government shutdown incident along with the trust theory as it relates to this issue. The more recent shutdown was contributed to the split party lines and Congress resisting to pass a budget with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in place. Trust between government and constituents have been a long struggle as public servants work to build trust after

Jarvis (2014) asserted that during the shutdown, more than one third of the government workforce was furloughed because their position was not deemed “excepted.” Government management official was left to sort out what positions were “excepted” or “non-excepted” with a mere understanding of contractual terms (Brass, 2014; Curren, 2015). Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., added that the government shutdown stagnates the economy and disrupts federal employees’ ability to do their jobs (Katz, 2015). This

The October 2013 government shutdown stimulated a wave of delays in pay and furloughed “non-excepted” government contractors, which affected agency’s operation, services, contracts, and grants. The furlough builds exclusive doubts on government stability and security from the affected contractors triggering a negative impact on their WLOC, job satisfaction, and job performance linking to CWB-I and CWB-O. Several research questions and hypotheses below correspond with the problem statement and the

How does government shutdown affect the U.S. economy? Government shutdown occurs when the Congress fail to pass legislation funding the government operations and agencies. During the normal budget process, the Congress appropriate funds by September 30 for the following fiscal year. When this fail, the government activities or operations cease and federal employees are divided into essential and non-essential groups. But in 1995, the division were changed to excepted and non-excepted. Historically

and agencies of the US government make up the federal bureaucracy. The federal bureaucracy has 15 federal cabinet departments with about 2 million full-time employees. (Wilson et al, 290) “There have been 18 government shutdowns in modern U.S. political history. There were six shutdowns ranging from eight to 17 days in the late 1970s, but the duration of government shutdowns shrank dramatically beginning in the 1980s.” (Murse) In the event of a federal government shutdown, some programs and agencies

argue that another government shutdown as proposed by the Republican Party would be retrogressive. However, preventing another government shutdown requires collective action from the President and Congress. A delay in passing the appropriations bill is responsible for hampering the government spending plans for the 2016 fiscal year. According to political scholars spending caps introduced by the Obama administration are viable given that they limit the maximum amount of government expenditure. Additionally

On October 1 the U.S. Government shutdown, that’s right the only thing keeping us from complete and total anarchy shutdown for 16 days. So why are we treating it like this is some common media trash. Our Government may be acting like a bunch of kids when it comes to the debt crisis but having to shut down over a disagreement seems like a bit of a drastic measure. The shutdown caused many programs to shutdown, though many more where still able to function. If the shutdown had lasted longer there would

Two years ago, in 2013, the government was shut down due to disagreement between the two parties in Congress. There may be another closure. On September 9 at 7 A.M., The Washington Post published an article stating the possibility of government shutdown on October 1, 2015. Congress is way behind on passing spending bills that would allow funding for the government; the problem lies within the disagreement about spending and where cuts should be made: it also stems from both parties trying to push

increase dysfunction over the last couple of decades are the government shutdown that happened last year and less compromise to get things done. For example, the government shutdown that occurred in 2013 impacted millions of Americans. When I had first