The federal government shutdown could sideline significant numbers of federal employees and leave government contractors out in the cold, but in a $19.5 trillion economy with 147 million workers, a shutdown, even a long one, isn’t expected to leave much imprint on the broader economy. The last government shutdown in October 2013 sent 818,000 workers, or about 30% of all federal government employees, home without pay for more than two weeks.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 21, 2018 16:18 UTC