Good morning.
It’s not a happy Friday here in the United States.
We are 37 days into this stupid shutdown of the US government.
A sample:
CNBC: Jobs Friday won’t be happening again this week as the record-long government shutdown has resulted in a lack of official data on the labor market as well as a host of other important indicators.
CBS: The American Federation of Government Employees, a labor union that represents more than 800,000 federal and D.C. workers, is urging senators to back Johnson’s legislation that would provide funding to pay members of the military and federal workers during the shutdown.
CBS: A Rhode Island judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to provide full federal food benefits to states by Friday and admonished the government for what he said is its defiance of an earlier order.
The Seattle Times: The Federal Aviation Administration’s order to reduce up to 10% of flights to bring relief to air traffic controllers at the country’s busiest airports takes effect Friday.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that flights will be reduced until the government shutdown ends.
The outcome of the 2008 election in favor of the Democrats was actually a forgone conclusion (looking back now with the benefit of hindsight). It sure seems that we are headed that way with the 2028 election, even though it is still three long years away.