Economist Hoyt Bleakley likened a brief shutdown of a few days or a week to a blizzard that does little damage to the economy as shippers rapidly catch up.”A Trump administration shutdown of the U.S.-Mexico border would quickly spread across the economy, spiking fruit and vegetable prices, spawning food shortages, shutting production lines and throwing Americans out of work, at least temporarily.”

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