Government shutdown live updates: Day 2 continues, as both sides show no signs of negotiating and Trump re-ups threat of mass layoffs

This is the first formal shutdown since 2018, during President Trump’s first term. That shutdown lasted a record 35 days.

‘We believe we are in a stagflation period’: U.S. manufacturers stuck in slump that shows no sign of ending

The industrial side of the U.S. economy contracted in September for the seventh month in a row, ISM said, as companies ...