Did you know that there have been 11 total government shutdowns involving furloughs in U.S. history? The longest shutdown was for 35 days during Trump’s first term.

Duration of U.S. Government Shutdowns Throughout History – 2025-10-02.

Figure has not yet been formally peer reviewed and is intended as exploratory.

Posted by Odd-Distribution4153

8 comments

  1. It would be cool to see this by senate majority and house majority as well as the president.

  3. I dont feel like doing math but at what point does Trump administration become the administration with the most days of shutdown vs all others combined? I feel like he is pretty close to being the weakest president since y’know, any shutdown is because of a weak president.

  4. What happens if the shutdown just keeps going? What if it were to last 2 months or more?

  5. Big difference to note. The 95-96 Clinton shutdown and the 2018-19 Trump shutdown (longest ever) did not involve DoD. Their appropriations had already been approved and they operated as normal. That’s why I think this one ends within the week. Not paying civilian employees is one thing, not paying military members (who are generally younger) is an order of magnitude worse for the politicians.

  6. Just proof of the damage Regan caused to the US. The government apparatus has never recovered.

  7. Republicans will find a way to move all the money they didn’t spend on USAID and other government programs and keep paying the DOD.

    So it will stay until the Democrats pass the CR.

    The Republicans would like the government open, but they think they can do as much with it shutdown as with it open.

    The Democrats have a very large group of voters not being paid right now. The majority of federal workers support Democrats.

    So who will feel the pain first, that’s who will give in.

  8. Republicans have been sending folks to Washington for 40 years to cripple the federal government. DJT is the result.

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