mo4ch:>Prolonged shutdown may cost more than wall Trump asked for | Mo4ch News

With no end in sight for the partial US government shutdown, already the longest in history, it is estimated that in a fortnight it will cost the economy more than President Donald Trump demanded for a border wall.The federal government has been partially shut down already for 22 days as of Saturday, with Senate Democrats still refusing to agree to Trump’s requested $5.7 billion in funding to build the wall without which he claims the country is not safe.It appears that it would have been cheaper to cave in to the US leader’s demands for border security at once, as the national economy’s losses already amount to more than 60 percent of the debated sum and will also exceed it soon, the analysis by Standard & Poor's Global Ratings shows.Also on rt.comFed chair is ‘very worried’ about ballooning debt US will inevitably face“It will only take another two weeks to cost the US economy more than the $5.7 billion that the White House requested," Ann Bovino, S&P’s chief US eco…