(Washington Examiner) Everyone knows the phrase "government shutdown" doesn't
mean the entire U.S. government is shut down. So in a partial government
shutdown, like the one underway at the moment, how much of the government is
actually shut down, and how much is not?
One way to measure that is in how much money the government spends. In a
conversation Thursday, a Republican member of Congress mentioned that the
military pay act, passed by Congress and signed by President Obama at the
beginning of the shutdown, is actually a huge percentage of the government's
discretionary spending in any given year.
And that is still flowing. So if you took that money, and added it to all the
entitlement spending that is unaffected by a shutdown, plus all the areas of
spending that are exempted from a shutdown, and added it all together, how much
of the federal government's total spending is still underway even though the
government is technically shut down?
I asked a Republican source on the Senate Budget Committee for an estimate. This
was the answer: "Based on estimates drawn from CBO and OMB data, 83 percent of
government operations will continue.
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