CNNW CNN Newsroom Live December 22, 2018
Im natalie allen. Im George Howell. From cnn world headquarters, newsroom starts right now. It is 4 00 a. M. Here on the u. S. East coast. Thanks for being with us. And for the past four hours, parts of the United States government has been shut down. What that means is that hundreds of thousands of federal employees will feel the pain and the question, for how long . Who knows. Not the holiday gift they wanted of course from their leaders. Nearly a half million employees will be expected to work without pay until lawmakers make a deal. Lawmakers left washington friday without a bill to fund t...