{"id":32472,"date":"2025-11-07T01:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32472"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:13:40","slug":"how-long-will-the-us-government-shutdown-last-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32472","title":{"rendered":"How long will the US government shutdown last? | Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The federal government shutdown is now the longest in US history.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s longest government shutdown is becoming more painful by the day.<\/p>\n<p>At least 40 million Americans are struggling to get food, more than a million federal workers haven\u2019t been paid, health insurance premiums are rising, and flights are getting disrupted.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Congress has been locked in a standoff over a bill to fund government services, with Democrats demanding tax credits that will make health insurance cheaper for millions of Americans and an end to federal agency cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats won decisive victories in state and local elections this week. President Donald Trump is blaming the shutdown for this setback to the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>So, will he now be willing to negotiate? Can the two sides agree to a comprise?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Bernard Smith<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Pfeifle \u2013 Republican strategist<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Mayer \u2013 Professor of political science at George Mason University<\/p>\n<p>David Bolger \u2013 Democratic strategist<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 6 Nov 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">6 Nov 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government shutdown is now the longest in US history. America\u2019s longest government shutdown is becoming more painful by the day. At least 40 million Americans are struggling to get food, more than a million federal workers haven\u2019t been paid, health insurance premiums are rising, and flights are getting disrupted. Recommended Stories list of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[558,3483,11209],"class_list":{"0":"post-32472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-long","10":"tag-shutdown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}