Episode 1: A Government Shutdown is on it way.

Tune into the first podcast on this channel "Understanding The Issue", where i discuss the shadow of the future shut down casted over the United States and how our decisions on how the US is and will spend our budget needs to be fixed for things get to bad.

The following are the sources I referenced in the podcast:
1. https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/gross-domestic-product-fourth-quarter-and-year-2022-advance-estimate#:~:text=Current%2Ddollar%20GDP%20increased%209.2,(tables%201%20and%203).
2. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt/
3. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/budget_fy2023.pdf
4. https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/2023-sales-tax-rates-midyear/
5. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
6. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-foreign-aid-by-country
7. https://www.forbesindia.com/article/explainers/top-10-largest-economies-in-the-world/86159/1