Looking for the hard facts on government shutdowns?
ProQuest Congressional has Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, powerful summaries of salient facts prepared for Congress by its highly respected bipartisan research unit. Select ProQuest Congressional from the Law Library Electronic Resources page. In ProQuest Congressional, click "Research Report" and search "shutdown," and sort by most recent first. Among the first of 97 hits are two very on-point recently updated reports from 2017 and 2018.
The hot-off-the-press "Shutdown of the Federal Government: Causes, Processes, and Effects," (2018-CRS-187596), published on December 10, 2018, "addresses questions that arise frequently during government shutdowns" such as effects of shutdowns, plans, etc. The report "Past Government Shutdowns: Key Resources," (CRS-2017-GVF-0325), published on August 24, 2017, "provides an annotated list of historical documents and other resources related to several past government shutdowns."
By the way, since the president has recently discussed declaring a “national emergency,” you might want to search "National Emergency Powers," to see the August 30, 2007 CRS report of that name that "discusses background and history of Presidential national emergency powers, and reviews Congressional concerns leading to the National Emergencies Act." A CRS "Legal Sidebar" published Jan. 10, 2019 directly addresses the question "Can the Department of Defense Build the Border Wall?"
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