So far, the partial government shutdown for which President Trump said he’d be proud to take credit has caused only minimal harm to the $19.4 trillion U.S. economy he has worked to buoy.
The closing, which has left roughly 800,000 federal employees either furloughed or working without pay, prompted Bank of America to trim 10 basis points from its estimate of gross-domestic product growth in the last three months of 2018, lowering the projection to 2.8 percent.
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