Shuttering the government has costs of its own: A pair of government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996 cost the federal government more than $2 billion in today’s dollars, or nearly $80 million a day.

A 1996 congressional report estimated that it cost $1.4 billion to shut down the government for 27 days. Tensions between the Republican-led House and the Democratic White House led to additional shutdowns from Nov. 14 to Nov. 19, 1995, and between Dec. 16, 1995 and Jan. 5, 1996.