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Alluming government shutdown in the United States, the impact could be huge.
The shutdown turns away about a million park visitors every day.
So you're talking a huge economic impact.
Morale will be at its all time low during shutdowns and stress will be at its all time high.
It's World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Gideon Long.
US is just hours away from a federal government shutdown.
And yes, I know we've been here before, but this time it really does look like it's going to happen.
We assess the impact it could have, not just in the US, but as far away as sub-Saharan Africa.
And we look at a very different shutdown of the internet in Afghanistan.
We're starting the program in the US today
because it looks like the federal government there will shut down in around six and a half hours time at one minute past midnight,
eastern time in the United States.
If it does, it will be the first such closure in six years.
The US Congressional Budget Office, which is non-partisan,
says up to 750,000 federal employees could be furloughed as a result,
and the cost of compensating them could run to $400 million a day.
Julia Manchester is a reporter for The Hill in Washington.
Julia, thanks for joining us.