Go behind the headlines and hear what the newsmakers themselves have to say. In this weekend series, we’ll be getting experience, analysis, and understanding in extended interviews with the people who really know what’s going on.
All content for Weekend One on One is the property of SBS and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
Go behind the headlines and hear what the newsmakers themselves have to say. In this weekend series, we’ll be getting experience, analysis, and understanding in extended interviews with the people who really know what’s going on.
INTERVIEW: What does the US shutdown mean in practice?
Weekend One on One
5 minutes 56 seconds
1 month ago
INTERVIEW: What does the US shutdown mean in practice?
The U.S. federal government has entered a shutdown, a few hours after the U.S. Senate failed to pass a short-term spending bill on Tuesday night US East Coast time. It's the first government shutdown in nearly seven years. The last and also the longest federal government shutdown occurred from late 2018 to early 2019 during President Trump's first term when Democrats opposed funding the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The result was a shutdown lasting over five weeks, during which some 800,000 federal employees were forced to work without pay or take unpaid leave. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be forced to take unpaid leave this time too, with some public services potentially suspended or delayed, and the release of economic data possibly impacted as well. Bruce Wolpe is a senior fellow at the University of Sydney's United States Studies Centre and has served on the Democratic staff in the US Congress. He's been speaking to SBS's Virginia Langeberg about the impact of the shutdown.
Weekend One on One
Go behind the headlines and hear what the newsmakers themselves have to say. In this weekend series, we’ll be getting experience, analysis, and understanding in extended interviews with the people who really know what’s going on.
