Record US government shutdown harms Trump's ratings, plus Brexit chaos and Australian Essential poll
- Written by Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
US President Donald Trump and Republicans are losing the blame game over the shutdown.AAP/EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo
The current US government shutdown began on December 22, and is still going. At 32 days, it is the longest shutdown in US history, beating the previous record of 21 days in a 1995-96 shutdown.
The shutdown was caused by Trump’s demand...