The government shutdown is now in day 6 — here's how long previous government shutdowns have lasted

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• The government shutdown is now in its sixth day.
• This is the 21st time the federal government has had a funding lapse since the modern budgeting process began.
• Most of those times the shutdown has been short and not involved employees being sent home, but that has changed in recent years.

As lawmakers return to Capitol Hill on Thursday, the partial shutdown of the federal government is still ongoing.

President Donald Trump's sudden reversal on a bipartisan funding extension before the Christmas holiday forced a sizeable portion — but not all — of the government into a partial shutdown on Saturday.

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