Prospect of government shutdown poses a new threat to U.S. economy

Founding Farmers, a popular restaurant in Washington, D.C., is bracing for tough times ahead. During the last government shutdown, sales at the company’s restaurants fell by as much as 17 percent, co-founder Dan Simons said. (Deb Lindsey /For The Washington Post) Comment on this story The looming federal shutdown poses a new threat to American households, whose budgets are already facing pressure from higher gas prices, imminent student loan payments and depleting pandemic savings.

Although any of those shocks on their own wouldn’t be enough to sink the economy, economists say a pileup of disruptions — including the ongoing autoworkers’ […]

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