Deficit falls again Oct

[Flake]

Having a shut down keeps us from spending as much as we do. This is likely deceiving.

“The government shutdown effect was small,” Mike Englund, chief economist at Action Economics LLC in Boulder, Colorado, said before the budget numbers were released. Because federal workers were paid in full for the days they didn’t work, there wasn’t “a major outlay impact,” he said.

The comment was literally above you and you chose not to read it.

[Flake]

Having a shut down keeps us from spending as much as we do. This is likely deceiving.

“The government shutdown effect was small,” Mike Englund, chief economist at Action Economics LLC in Boulder, Colorado, said before the budget numbers were released. Because federal workers were paid in full for the days they didn’t work, there wasn’t “a major outlay impact,” he said.

The comment was literally above you and you chose not to read it.

It sounds like you're talking about the economy though. I was referring to the deficit.

This. Entire. Topic. Is. About. The. Deficit.