Citadel of Carelessness and Dysfunction: Successive US Congresses, Administrations’ Self-absorption and Discord

An America Locked in Vise of Human Betrayal and institutional Breakdown

US Government Shutdowns 1976 Stretching into 2025

Twentieth Century

94th Congress (2nd session)

1976 (President Gerald Ford): September 30 - October 11

 

95th Congress (1st session)

1977 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 - October 13

1977 (President Jimmy Carter): October 31 - November 9

1977 (President Jimmy Carter): November 30 - December 9

1978 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 - October 18

 

96th Congress (1st session)

1979 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 - October 12

 

97th Congress (1st session)

1981 (President Ronald Reagan): November 20 - November 23

97th Congress (2nd session)

1982 (President Ronald Reagan): September 30 - October 2

1982 (President Ronald Reagan): December 17 - December 21

 

98th Congress (1st session)

1983 (President Ronald Reagan): November 10 - November 14

98th Congress (2nd session)

1984 (President Ronald Reagan): September 30 - October 3

1984 (President Ronald Reagan): October 3 - October 5

 

99th Congress (1st session)

1986 (President Ronald Reagan): October 16 - October 18

 

100th Congress (1st session)

1987 (President Ronald Reagan): December 18 - December 20

 

101st Congress (2nd session)

1990 (President George H.W. Bush): October 5 - 9

  

104th Congress

1995 (President Bill Clinton): November 14 - 19

104th Congress (1st and 2nd sessions)

1995-1996 (President Bill Clinton): December 16, 1995 - January 6, 1996

Twenty-First Century 

113th Congress (1st session)

2013 (President Barack Obama): October 1 - October 17

 

115th Congress (2nd session)

2018 (President Donald Trump): January 20 - January 23

2018 (President Donald Trump): February 9 (1 day)

 

115th Congress (2nd session) 116th Congress (1st session)

2018-2019 (President Donald Trump): December 22, 2018 - January 25, 2019

 

119th Congress (2nd session)

2025(President Donald Trump): October 1, 2025 - continuing at this writing November 4, 2025

Sources
Thought Co, Tom Murse, latest update July 13, 2024, “All 21 Government Shutdowns in U.S. History Duration and Year of Government Shutdowns,” https://www.thoughtco.com/government-shutdown-history-3368274
About ThoughtCo https://www.thoughtco.com/about-us-4779650

Wikipedia 2025 United States federal government shutdown (last edited November 4, 2025, 19:46 (UTC-Universal Time Coordinated aka Coordinated Universal Time) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_government_shutdown

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overnment officials in the United States seem incapable of civil, intelligent, mature interaction and negotiation either US domestic affairs or in international affairs. 

This critical failure in character is harmful to the United States of America (its intuitions and people) and to world’s peoples, cultures, and nations.

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