The partial U.S. government shutdown of 2018–2019 occurred from midnight EST on December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019. It covered a staggering span of 35 days and was the longest ever U.S. government shutdown in history, and the second federal government shutdown involving furloughs during the Presidency of Donald Trump. The shutdown sparked various reactions by the people, as well as the affected Government facilities. But why did it happen?
19 January, Friday, a spending Bill named the Appropriations Bill had to be passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump. However, an agreement on the content was not achieved leading to the Federal Government shut down. This
The bill designed by the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives and the Senate, which would have kept the doors of Washington open until 16 February, had considerations both for the Democrats and the Republicans. So why the shutdown?
The Republicans offered full re-authorization for six years of the Children’s Health Insurance Programme (CHIP), which provides coverage for low-income families but President Donald Trump cracked the solidity of this claim by tweeting that he did not support the CHIP inclusion.
And so, though CHIP as well as a number of other propositions in the Bill, border wall inclusive, were passed by the House of Representatives, quite a number of Republicans in the Senate said they would vote no. That backed by the Senate Democrats announcing that they had enough votes on their own to block the bill, the bill failed by a margin of 50-49, well short of the 60 votes required.
