On 1 October, lawmakers in Congress, bitterly divided along partisan lines, failed to agree on a new budget. The US government closed. Roughly 800,000 civil servants, including thousands of scientists, were ordered to stay at home. Even accessing their work e-mail would constitute a federal crime, they were told. Now entering its second week, the shutdown is showing few signs of abating. Non-government scientists must be imagining that this nightmare will pass. This is iust a Washington DC thins, right?
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