Just a few months after the longest government shutdown in American history, the U.S. government is yet again teetering on the brink of another shutdown. Lawmakers have been unable to agree upon funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its controversial office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and must do so before the fiscal year deadline: midnight on Friday, Jan. 30. Should they fail, the government will once again come to a funding standstill.
This time, however, a shutdown will hit households and markets differently.
