tldr- FCC (and many other federal
agencies?) will perform orderly shutdown on Jan 3 if congress does not do the needful - it seems to be a game of chicken between trump and democrats over funding the "mexican Wall".<p>It's amazing that this is barely news in the rest of the world - I know the xmas timing makes news coverage / consumption weird but I completely missed how serious this had got.<p>some background<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_...</a>
list of govt shutdowns in the past<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_...</a>