skirmish is because a budget didn t pass last year at all. the house did not pass a budget last year. that s why we had this funding lapse. we ll now have passed three bills preventing a government shutdown and get something spending cuts. nothing has been passed the senate. we need movement in the senate to prevent the shutdown. on the big issues of the day, we re going from talking about billions to trillions. we have trillions of dollars of problems in this country. and, look, the key deal is this. the sooner we tackle these fiscal problems in america, the better off everybody is. if we don t tackle them soon, then it is bitter european-like austerity. cuts to currency, tax increases that slow down your economy. we want to preempt that. nobody 55 and above sees a change in anything that they are experiencing in their lives. we can do it if we go now. and that s what we re proposing to do. paul ryan. chris lick just said in my ear, i m in love. i m sorry. seriously. give the man
them. social security, retirement, and disability claims would be stopped or delayed as well. national museums and parks will close their doors as well. that means money fren trifees for them would basically go to zero. now, there is a congressional report that we looked at that said a previous shutdown turned away 9 million visitors. visa and passport processing would stop. in previous shutdowns 200,000 u.s. applications were held off and 20,000 to 30,000 foreign visa applications, they just sat fallow for each and every day, according to what we understand. that cost the travel industry millions of dollars. also hurt by a funding lapse, contractors, which means hundreds of thousands of jobs are in play there. almost $4 billion of work was affected, reportedly causing employees to be furloughed and product releases to be delayed as well. those are just some examples, chris, of services and jobs that could be affected, but there are services that will continue in a