As the federal government shutdown dragged on toward becoming the longest in history, Baltimore-based dev agency Fearless Solutions decided to write a letter to elected officials about the difficulties the impasse was causing up the road from D.C.
A week later, Maryland’s two U.S. Senators, Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, were both at the company’s base in Spark Baltimore to listen to Fearless and other entrepreneurs discuss the impact of the shutdown.
“Every day that goes by, the damage around the country is growing. And it’s snowballing,” Van Hollen said of the 28-day partial government shutdownthat affected nine federal agencies when funding lapsed as a result of the dispute over funding for President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall on the country’s southern border.
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