How a US Government Shutdown Impacts the United Nations

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The US government came perilously close to shutting down. Again. But at the last minute a compromise was struck to keep the government funded for the next 45 days. Congress now has until mid-November to pass a budget or face a shutdown.

A shutdown would have sparked a major crisis at the United Nations. That’s been ave…