The 2018–2019 partial government shutdown has now gone into its fifth week. There doesn’t seem to be any sign that it will end.
What happened before Week Five? You may want to take a look at my blog post about Week One, Week Two, Week Three, and Week Four.
I am hoping that the shutdown ends soon.
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This blog is about what happened during Week Four of the 2018–2019 partial government shutdown. Let’s hope it doesn’t go into Week Five!
What happened before Week Four? Plenty! I’ve got you covered. You may want to take a look at my blog posts about Week One, Week Two, and Week Three.
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The 2018–2019 partial government shutdown went into a third week.
Want to know what happened before week three? You may want to read my post about week one of the partial government shutdown, and/or my post about what happened during week two.
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The 2018–2019 partial government shutdown began on December 22, 2018.
You may want to read my blog post about Week One of the partial government shutdown before reading this one.
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First, a little background before the 2018–2019 partial shutdown started:
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New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced (on December 18, 2018) that the Trump Foundation has signed a stipulation agreeing to dissolve under judicial supervision.
New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood released the following statement in a press release:
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President Trump has been tweeting about McCarthy and McCarthyism. This inspired me to put together an explainer about who Senator Joseph McCarthy was, and what he did.
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It’s been a little while since the 2018 midterm election ended, and most (if not all) of the votes have now been counted. Democrats did really well in the U.S. House of Representatives. This will change how things go in 2019 (when the newly elected take their seats).
We will no longer have one party controlling all branches of the federal government. Personally, I find that comforting. I’m not a fan of the decisions that were made when the Republicans controlled everything.
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This poem was originally posted on Medium on September 17, 2018. The inspiration for this poem was the frustration I felt after noticing that the meanest people on Twitter are using it as a machine to manufacture outrage and hate.
I read The Outrage Machine on Words of Jen episode 059.
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What happens if a President of the United States becomes incapacitated, dies, resigns, or is removed from office? The next eligible person in the Presidential Order of Succession becomes President.
Here is a list of the positions that are part of the Presidential Order of Succession, and the name of the person who currently holds those positions.
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