What is a GVT Shutdown.....? Heres your answer... Causes[edit] A shutdown can happen when a legislative body (including the legislative power of veto by the executive) cannot agree on a budget financing its government programs for a pending fiscal year. In the absence of appropriated funds, the government discontinues providing non-essential services at the beginning of the affected fiscal year. Government employees who provide essential services, often referred to as "essential employees," are required to continue working. For years, many federal agencies continued to operate during a funding gap while minimizing nonessential operations and obligations, believing that Congress did not intend that agencies close down while waiting for appropriations to be enacted. During the fiscal year 1981 appropriations process, President Reagan requested opinions on the Antideficiency Act from the then-U.S. Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti. In two memoranda issued in 1980 and 1981, the Attorney General stated that the act required agencies to terminate all operations when their current appropriations expired.[2][3] Effects[edit] A federal government shutdown causes a large number of civilian federal employees to be furloughed. Military personnel are not furloughed, but may not be paid as scheduled.[4][5] The exact details of which government functions would stop during a shutdown is determined by the Office of Management and Budget.[6] However, some specific aspects have applied to all shutdowns in the past. Among these is the closure of national parks and passport offices.[7] "Emergency personnel" continue to be employed, including the military, border agents, doctors and nurses working in federal hospitals, and air traffic controllers.[6] Members of Congress continue to be paid, because their pay cannot be altered except by direct law.[8] Mail delivery is not affected as it is self-funded.[9] Shutdowns in the past have also affected the Washington, D.C. municipal government, putting a stop to schools and to utilities such as garbage collection.[10]
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