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Talk about going broke.

New projections show that if the government shutdown isn’t averted (and it looks like that’s not going to happen) then the Washington D.C. region could lose an estimated $200 million a day.

That’s not counting the 700,000 jobs taking a financial hit (as the region is home to the largest concentration of federal workers), and the major blow to the district’s tourism (which is one of the region’s economic mainstays) all of which means D.C. will be in financial ruins.

“This is serious,” said Stephen Fuller, director of George Mason University’s Center for Regional Analysis. “The national economy may not notice a shutdown much unless it lasts three or four weeks. But for the Washington area, this is a tsunami.”

Aside from the millions of dollars we’ll lose every day until Republicans and Democrats can get their shit together, the economic impact will spread wide and far.

“…area residents could also see cuts in federal services: no new applications for benefits such as Medicare, Social Security and child-care subsidies, no new housing or small-business loans, no new clinical trials for research funded by the National Institutes of Health and a murky prognosis for the safety net for those most in need.

Child-care centers in federal agencies would close, parents said, and child-care workers, who are not employed by the federal government, likewise would be sent home.

At least mail will continue to be delivered. And Amtrak trains will continue to run.

Looks like we found the silver lining in a bunch of political crap.

SOURCE: Washington Post