Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed, which means no paychecks until Congress acts and local economies feel the pinch. The CDC, NIH, and FDA lose large portions of their staff, which means fewer people tracking disease, running medical research, and inspecting food and drug facilities.

The U.S. government shutdown has thrown the brakes on the flow of federal economic data at a moment of uncertainty and division among policymakers like those at the Federal Reserve about the health of the U.

As the US government was plunged into a shutdown, Donald Trump was no doubt relishing the idea of the days ahead.

The government shutdown could disrupt flights, extend security wait times, and slow safety functions, creating a stressful travel experience.

Here are the key impacts of the shutdown, based on agencies’ most recent contingency plans approved by the White House.

The U.S. government shutdown entered its second day on Thursday as Congress has yet to pass legislation to fund the government.

As uncertainty deepens amid the U.S. government’s first shutdown in almost seven years, the gold frenzy continues to climb to new heights.

By Lucia Mutikani and Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Alternate data from public and private sources showed the U.S. job market likely remained stalled in September, with sluggish hiring but no change in an unemployment rate economists see as heavily influenced by a decline in the number of foreign-born workers.

U.S. government layoffs could be in the thousands, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday as the federal government began the second day of a shutdown.