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Op-Ed: Government shutdown—The cost of congressional inaction

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By Tracy Zea, President & CEO, Waterways Council Inc. (WCI) Niels Bohr, the Danish theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about

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At press time, the federal government is in a shutdown, with federal workers furloughed.

Tracy Zea.

By Tracy Zea, President & CEO, Waterways Council Inc. (WCI)

Niels Bohr, the Danish theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” While he may have been referring to physics, this could not be more pertinent to current-day politics as well.

At press time, the federal government is in a shutdown, with federal workers furloughed. House and Senate GOP members want to pass a “clean” Continuing Resolution (CR) that runs through November 21, but Democrats remain staunch in voting down the CR proposal in hopes to negotiate on the extension of Obamacare subsidies that will expire at the end of 2025.  As of now, it looks like neither side will blink and this shutdown will beat the 2018 record of 35 days.

Again, these issues are impossible to predict, but one thing that is certain

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