Significant U.S. Federal Government Shutdowns – Updated 2025-11-06 [OC]

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    1. Only one on this graph managed to not only have shutdowns with full control of the government, but the 2 longest in U.S. history.

    2. It’s worth repeating that in other developed countries when a government can’t pass a budget (or perform its duties) it is disbanded and a new elections are called.

    3. This missing critical data points: where did the appropriations bill fail (house? senate? both? presidential veto?), and what was the contention point?

    4. What’s infuriating aside from the fact things are shut down is the fact Congress could be working on an actual budget while this mess is continuing. This shutdown is over a CR (continuing resolution) not the actual budget. So, if and when agreement is reached on the CR, the actual budget will still not be finished…makes zero sense of course, but then paying the salaries of Mike Johnson and his gang of performative nuts continues.

    5. _badwithcomputer on

      Some variation of this exact graph gets posted every few days (then deleted by mods usually).

    6. Showerbeerz413 on

      wait the government has been shutdown for over a month? I feel like we should be close to “fire them all and elect new people”

    7. I have never seen someone speed run the downfall of a government this fast without it being a full military coup…**IF** we make it out of this the history books on this are gonna be insane.

    8. 1000thusername on

      Of note: he is the only person to have a shutdown when co trolling all three branches, and that’s happened three times now under that situation.

    9. It’s worth noting that the senate does not have to take 60 votes.

      They can and have eliminated the 60 vote requirement with a majority vote.

      Not doing so today is a choice among the Republican senate. If all the republican senators choose to do so they could open the government today with a couple votes and the presidents signature – no democrats required.

    10. Wild that Carter had a sixteen seat majority in the senate and a 119-seat majority in the house in 1980.

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