US economic harm from shutdown is small now — but growing constantly

By James Langford

Published January 10, 2019 7:48pm ET

US economic harm from shutdown is small now — but growing constantly — People rally to call for an end to the partial government shutdown on Thursday. | (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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.