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Posted on 10/01/2025 4:06:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A government shutdown may worsen conditions for the already struggling economy of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, hammering a region that has been affected by dramatic federal job losses under the Trump administration.
With congressional leaders unable to reach an agreement on federal funding levels and health care policy changes, the government shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, with no clear resolution to the impasse or indication of how long it will last. Shutdowns typically involve hundreds of thousands of federal employees being furloughed or working without pay. Meanwhile, the Office of Management and Budget released a memo last week instructing agencies to prepare for mass firings in an as yet unsuccessful effort to pressure congressional Democrats to vote to keep the government open.
There will be gallons of ink spilled over the next days and weeks about which political faction is “winning” the shutdown. While that transpires, the cessation will exacerbate preexisting economic struggles in the region. Although federal workers reside throughout the United States, a large percentage of employees are concentrated in the Washington metropolitan area. Locals call this region the DMV, referring to the intertwined economies of D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The DMV is home to 6.4 million people, and the region is the sixth-largest economy in the country.
ince Trump took office a second time, the DMV region has been particularly hard hit by his efforts to shrink the federal workforce. According to a July report by the Richmond Federal Reserve, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia lost a cumulative 22,100 jobs between January and May of this year. The DMV region’s unemployment has increased at a higher rate than in the rest of the country, in large part due to federal layoffs, according to a,,,
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“The DMV is home to 6.4 million people, and the region is the sixth-largest economy in the country.”
If it’s Federal employees getting paychecks on the backs of taxpayers it’s not really an “economy”.
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NOVA should be devastated.
I for one, welcome the devastation...
I think the morning commutes will be a bit better.
Oh heavens to Betsy, how will we survive?
All the factories, mills, farms and other productive businesses will shut down!
Oh, wait a minute…never mind.
Boo-effin-hoo.
Jimmy cracked corn,,,
“””A government shutdown may worsen conditions for the already struggling economy of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, hammering a region that has been affected by dramatic federal job losses under the Trump administration.”””
Grace Segers, you need to get out your Thesaurus. If you think that the very few government sluggards that have been terminated thus far is dramatic, then you ain’t seen nothing yet babe.
I don’t know about that.
Mrs. VanShuyten seemed pretty happy today.
Of course, unlike the idiot whiners all over the news today, we don’t live “paycheck to paycheck”.
And no one’s been fired yet
*sad trombone sound*
I voted for this!
Anyway....
Do you think Onion Rings are better than Sweet Potato fries?
Excellent. I had not seen this before.
My heart aches for them. Or maybe it was that bean burrito I had for lunch.
Such drama.
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