On the first anniversary of House Republicans’ disastrous shutdown, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching GOP Timeflop: a time capsule of this Republican Congress, bringing you your worst memories, delivered daily. Each morning for the next 15 days, you will wake up to a fresh Timeflop experience, delivering memories of the headlines Americans were seeing one year ago today in the midst of the first government shutdown in 17 years. The shutdown eventually cost the economy $24 billion.
Here’s a sampling of the headlines Americans were waking up to on Day 1 of the shutdown:
- Wall Street Journal: NIH Forced to Turn Away Patients
- Washington Post: Government shutdown leaves small business loans in limbo, shutters SBA
- Wall Street Journal: Dollar Weakens After Shutdown
- CBS News: NIH, CDC feeling government shutdown’s effects
- Los Angeles Times: Businesses are feeling effect of partial government shutdown
- CBS News: WIC support for moms, babies threatened during shutdown
- Roanoke Times: Federal government shutdown closes parks across the country
You can view the whole GOP Timeflop experience here: goptimeflop.com
“House Republicans may want to pretend last year’s shutdown didn’t happen, but the American people are still feeling the effects of their disastrous shutdown that cost our economy $24 billion—and to help remind House Republicans of the damage they caused, we’re bringing them their daily GOP Timeflop experience,” said Josh Schwerin of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “For the next 15 days GOP Timeflop will bring you your worst shutdown memories, delivered daily—because these are precisely the moments that voters remember about John Boehner’s failed, toxic Congress.”