12. The Shut Down Of The Barack Obama Administration
Since the late 1970s, there have been a total of 21 government shutdowns with the 18th shutdown on the list coming from the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama’s administration. This shutdown occurred because of the controversial Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. Some of the Republicans, who were already displeased that they could not repeal health care law wanted to keep the government running but hold off on the Affordable Care Act. Of course, several other members of the Congress didn’t approve of this plan.
Because of this, the government went into a shutdown, which started on October 1st of 2013. At this point, over 800,000 government employees went home and waited for their phones to ring while nearly 1.3 million continued to report to work without pay. None of the government employees had any idea when they would see their next paycheck. This government shutdown ended on October 16th, sixteen days later with a victory for President Barack Obama and the Democrats.