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The longest government shutdowns in US history, explained · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: The current government shutdown has now become the longest in
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  Speaker 1: US history. Since nineteen seventy seven, there have been twenty
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  Speaker 1: one shutdowns. What are the five longest ones, why did
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  Speaker 1: they happen, and how did they finally come to an end.
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  Speaker 1: Let's break it down, all right. Let's start with number five.
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  Speaker 1: It lasted sixteen days during the Obama administration in twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: The dispute centered around the Affordable Care Act. Congress failed
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  Speaker 1: to agree on a budget after Republican lawmakers pushed to
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  Speaker 1: defund Obamacare, Senate Democrats and the Obama administration rejected those proposals,
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  Speaker 1: setting off a partial government shutdown in early October of
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  Speaker 1: that year.
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  Speaker 2: Last night, I signed legislation to reopen our government and
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  Speaker 2: pay America's bills. The first government shutdown in seventeen years
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  Speaker 2: is now over.
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  Speaker 1: The shutdown finally ended on October sixteenth, when both chambers
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  Speaker 1: of Congress voted to fund the government through January fifteenth
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  Speaker 1: and extend the debt limit.
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  Speaker 3: There are no winners here, no winners.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, the sixteen day shutdown cost, by one estimate, twenty
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  Speaker 1: four billion dollars and hurt US credibility around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Minor changes were made to the Affordable Care Act, like
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  Speaker 1: requiring income verification for those receiving healthcare subsidies. President Obama
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  Speaker 1: signed the bill shortly after midnight on October seventeenth, ending
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  Speaker 1: the shutdown. Moving on to number four. The fourth longest
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  Speaker 1: shutdown lasted seventeen days during the Carter administration in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy eight. It was one of five shutdowns that happened
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  Speaker 1: under President Jimmy Carter. This one started with several disagreements,
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  Speaker 1: including funding for abortion and a defense spending bill to
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  Speaker 1: build a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. That's something President Carter
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  Speaker 1: called wasteful spending. The government reopened after Congress pass legislation
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  Speaker 1: that excluded funding for the aircraft carrier and a public
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  Speaker 1: works project, while also maintaining a compromise on abortion funding.
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  Speaker 1: This takes us to number three. The third longest government
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  Speaker 1: shutdown lasted twenty one days during President Clint's administration in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety.
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  Speaker 3: Six, and there is very little indication this evening that
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  Speaker 3: the White House and the Republicans in Congress are going
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  Speaker 3: to resolve their differences about how and when to balance
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  Speaker 3: the federal budget.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, Republicans had just taken control of the
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  Speaker 1: House for the first time in decades. Clinton Republicans clashed
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  Speaker 1: over how to balance the nation's budget, and the president
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  Speaker 1: vetoing a Republican budget proposal to give control of medicaid
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  Speaker 1: to the states.
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  Speaker 4: We can balance the budget without doing what they seek
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 1: The shutdown ended when Republicans agreed to a proposal made
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  Speaker 1: by Clinton.
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  Speaker 4: Republicans agreed to bring all federal workers back and pay
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  Speaker 4: them until January twenty sixth, but there will be no
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  Speaker 4: money for workers to spend on programs House Republicans regard
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  Speaker 4: as unessential, such as foreign aid, the Peace Corps, and
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  Speaker 4: environmental protection.
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  Speaker 1: Moving on to the second longest government shutdown in US history.
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  Speaker 1: It happened in twenty nineteen, during President Trump's first term.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, the Senate failed to pass a funding
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  Speaker 1: bill that included a five point seven billion dollar requests
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  Speaker 1: from President Trump to help build a wall on the
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  Speaker 1: southern border.
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  Speaker 4: Even if it has no wall money or is it
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  Speaker 4: only look, I have other alternatives if I have to,
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  Speaker 4: and I use those alternate I have to. We want
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  Speaker 4: to go through the system.
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  Speaker 1: We have to have a wall in this country. The
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  Speaker 1: shutdown cost the US economy and estimated three billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It finally ended when Trump signed legislation to reopen and
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  Speaker 1: fund the government.
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  Speaker 2: The short term deal no money for a wall, back
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  Speaker 2: pay for federal workers who missed paychecks, but not for
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  Speaker 2: thousands of federal contractors aren't covered by laws governing shutdowns,
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  Speaker 2: and a bipartisan congressional conference. We'll try to hammer out
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  Speaker 2: a deal on border security.
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  Speaker 1: That twenty nineteen stalemate held the record for the longest
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  Speaker 1: shutdown in American history until now. The current shutdown has
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  Speaker 1: officially surpassed the thirty five daymar The President trying to
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  Speaker 1: ramp up the pressure, threatening mass layoffs and cuts the programs.
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  Speaker 2: We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible.
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  Speaker 1: It began after both parties failed to pass competing spending measures,
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  Speaker 1: a Democratic back bill that would have extended the Affordable
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  Speaker 1: Care Act subsidies and reverse custom Medicaid, and a Republican
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  Speaker 1: stopgap bill that would have kept the government running for
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  Speaker 1: seven more weeks. Democrats are pushing to extend expiring tax
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  Speaker 1: credits that have helped millions of Americans afford health insurance.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans meanwhile, insist they will non negotiate on those provisions
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  Speaker 1: until the government is reopened, accusing Democrats of holding the
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  Speaker 1: government hostage to have those health care negotiations. Across the country,
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of federal employees remain without pay, snap benefits,
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  Speaker 1: and air travel operations are facing growing disruptions. Vote after
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  Speaker 1: vote has failed to break the impass on the Senate floor,
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  Speaker 1: and both sides are not close to a deal. How
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  Speaker 1: long will this stalemate last? Only time will tell.