The End Of The Shutdown?

By Stacey Vanek Smith,

Published January 25, 2019 at 6:14 PM EST

Today, President Trump announced the end of the federal government shutdown. For a few weeks, anyway. The government will reopen until February 15, as negotiations on border security continue. Today on the Indicator, we talk to one forest service worker - who was furloughed - about how he fared through the shutdown, and how he feels now that it's over.

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Stacey Vanek Smith

Stacey Vanek Smith is the co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money. She's also a correspondent for Planet Money, where she covers business and economics. In this role, Smith has followed economic stories down the muddy back roads of Oklahoma to buy 100 barrels of oil; she's traveled to Pune, India, to track down the man who pitched the country's dramatic currency devaluation to the prime minister; and she's spoken with a North Korean woman who made a small fortune smuggling artificial sweetener in from China.

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Cardiff Garcia

Cardiff Garcia is a co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money podcast, along with Stacey Vanek Smith. He joined NPR in November 2017.

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