(see update) A once-emergent Senate deal to avert default and end the shutdown was "up in the air," as Senate leaders decided to wait to see if the House can originate the legislation.
The shutdown closed up to 20 stations until almost 8 p.m. and left herds of baffled commuters bouncing from line to line in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, trying to cobble together some way to get home.
The doctors would ideally like to see the shutdown of up to a third of the country's hospitals, a total of around 500, although they recognise this would be politically unacceptable and would settle for a lower figure leaving some medium-sized units open.
Others could not explain why it took so much damage, to their party and the millions of people inconvenienced and worse by the shutdown, to end up right where so many of them expected.
British newspapers have calculated that the shutdown has stranded up to a million British travelers, counting those whose outbound flights have been canceled and those abroad trying to get home.
It has launched a grenade of frustration among residents, who may not agree on official mitigation efforts, but are unified in recognizing that the shutdown could end up being a shitshow.
In a report, the commission determined that several procedural steps had not been taken in reporting events leading up to the shutdown, and a follow-up evaluation in 2006 showed that some problems remained, Ms. Screnci said.
The success of the port shutdown varied up and down the west coast.
Should the shutdown end up being the mess the service is banking on, that threatens the ease and comfort that passengers are actively seeking out.
WASHINGTON – The prospect of a mid-October debt crisis on top of the government shutdown "shapes up to be sort of a perfect storm" for the economy that is rattling American bankers and businesses, a leading corporate executive said on Thursday.
