A Timeline Of US Government Shutdowns

The 2018/19 shutdown was the longest in recent U.S. history at 34 days.

As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz shows in the timeline below, government shutdowns have been getting longer in the last three decades, with the second-longest and the fourth-longest shutdown taking place in 1995 and 2013, respectively.

<img alt=”Infographic: The Timeline of U.S. Government Shutdowns