Overview

• Treasury Secretary Scott Bressent told CNBC the shutdown is stripping roughly $15 billion a day from economic output.
• He said the stoppage is increasingly undermining an investment surge he attributes to President Trump’s policies.
• Flight disruptions, closures of cultural institutions, and widespread federal layoffs are ongoing on day 15.
• Cuts are concentrated in the Treasury, Health, Education and Commerce Departments, as well as DHS’s cybersecurity division.
• Republicans need at least seven Democratic votes to advance a funding bill in the Senate, recalling the 35-day shutdown in 2019 over border-wall funding.