A sign indicating that the National Archives Building is closed because of the federal government shutdown Monday. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)Hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the Washington region began their workweek on a gray-sky Monday facing a brief, unnerving government shutdown that left many fearing what lies ahead. (Claritza Jimenez/The Washington Post)Congress has not balanced a budget in years, and King doesn’t expect them to come February. “The thing the 2013 shutdown emphasized was that I need to assume more risk in federal employment,” Rigg said. “It is a huge pain in the ass,” said a researcher on his way into the National Institutes of Health on Monday morning.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2018 17:26 UTC