But the president made no mention of it in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. The partial government shutdown lasted 35 days, affecting about 800,000 federal workers ― in addition to thousands of federal contractors. Trump never mentioned what federal workers went through during his speech Tuesday night. In his State of the Union speech that year, Clinton honored a heroic public servant who had been furloughed because of the shutdown. “Just a few weeks ago, I joined volunteers to distribute meals to furloughed federal workers.

Source: Huffington Post February 06, 2019 03:30 UTC