While some regional Fed banks have hard data, many of those figures come from agencies that are closed during the shutdown.

Roughly 42 million people will not get their SNAP benefits, starting Saturday.

Just in time for winter temperatures.

Due to the government shutdown, some pieces of the calculation puzzle for corporate earnings and outlook reports are missing.

“If we don’t know what the quality of the data will be. Well, that’s uncertainty. That’s risky,” says Columbia finance professor Laura Veldkamp.

Many cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin or Solana, known as altcoins, are waiting for approval by the SEC to be traded as exchange-traded funds. But with the government shutdown, that wait could be a lot longer.

The CDFI fund supports mission-driven lenders operating in rural, tribal, and otherwise underserved parts of the country. Last year, it awarded over $400 million to those institutions. 

Some passengers have already experienced delays, which could get worse as the shutdown drags on. But experts say you don’t need to panic right now.

Why aren’t services in tribal communities funded through government shutdowns like Social Security?

As the government shutdown wears on, federal employees have begun to miss paychecks. But contract workers at government facilities face different repercussions.