'Costing $1.2bn a week': Shutdown sends US into uncharted waters

The US government shutdown on Saturday became the longest in history and is taking a growing bite out of the world's largest economy with each passing day. While most of the 21 "lapses" in government spending since 1976 left barely a scratch on economic growth, the length of this shutdown makes it harder to say just how bad the impact could get.

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