{
  "source": "https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/RS/PDF/RS20348/RS20348.46.pdf",
  "source_edition": "December 18, 2025",
  "table": "Table 1, printed page 3 (PDF page 6)",
  "scope": "The 21 events listed by this CRS edition; not a complete current FY2026 status or every agency-specific lapse. Later events not checked.",
  "counting": "Full days after budget authority expired and before new authority was enacted. Next-day enactments with no full gap day are excluded.",
  "interpretation": "A funding gap is not itself proof of a full government shutdown, a service-level effect, dollar cost, or responsibility of a particular official.",
  "source_correction": "Summary text says November 12, 2015 for FY2026; Table 1 says November 12, 2025. Use the internally consistent Table 1 date, preserving this discrepancy.",
  "rows": [
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      "fiscal_year": 1977,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1976-09-30",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1976-10-01",
      "full_gap_days": 10,
      "terminated": "1976-10-11"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1978,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1977-09-30",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1977-10-01",
      "full_gap_days": 12,
      "terminated": "1977-10-13"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1978,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1977-10-31",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1977-11-01",
      "full_gap_days": 8,
      "terminated": "1977-11-09"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1978,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1977-11-30",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1977-12-01",
      "full_gap_days": 8,
      "terminated": "1977-12-09"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1979,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1978-09-30",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1978-10-01",
      "full_gap_days": 17,
      "terminated": "1978-10-18"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1980,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1979-09-30",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1979-10-01",
      "full_gap_days": 11,
      "terminated": "1979-10-12"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1982,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1981-11-20",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1981-11-21",
      "full_gap_days": 2,
      "terminated": "1981-11-23"
    },
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      "fiscal_year": 1983,
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      "first_full_gap_day": "1982-10-01",
      "full_gap_days": 1,
      "terminated": "1982-10-02"
    },
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      "fiscal_year": 1983,
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      "first_full_gap_day": "1982-12-18",
      "full_gap_days": 3,
      "terminated": "1982-12-21"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1984,
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      "first_full_gap_day": "1983-11-11",
      "full_gap_days": 3,
      "terminated": "1983-11-14"
    },
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      "fiscal_year": 1985,
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      "terminated": "1984-10-03"
    },
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      "fiscal_year": 1985,
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      "first_full_gap_day": "1984-10-04",
      "full_gap_days": 1,
      "terminated": "1984-10-05"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1987,
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      "first_full_gap_day": "1986-10-17",
      "full_gap_days": 1,
      "terminated": "1986-10-18"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1988,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1987-12-18",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1987-12-19",
      "full_gap_days": 1,
      "terminated": "1987-12-20"
    },
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      "fiscal_year": 1991,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1990-10-05",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1990-10-06",
      "full_gap_days": 3,
      "terminated": "1990-10-09"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1996,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1995-11-13",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1995-11-14",
      "full_gap_days": 5,
      "terminated": "1995-11-19"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 1996,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "1995-12-15",
      "first_full_gap_day": "1995-12-16",
      "full_gap_days": 21,
      "terminated": "1996-01-06"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 2014,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "2013-09-30",
      "first_full_gap_day": "2013-10-01",
      "full_gap_days": 16,
      "terminated": "2013-10-17"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 2018,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "2018-01-19",
      "first_full_gap_day": "2018-01-20",
      "full_gap_days": 2,
      "terminated": "2018-01-22"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 2019,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "2018-12-21",
      "first_full_gap_day": "2018-12-22",
      "full_gap_days": 34,
      "terminated": "2019-01-25"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 2026,
      "last_budget_authority_date": "2025-09-30",
      "first_full_gap_day": "2025-10-01",
      "full_gap_days": 42,
      "terminated": "2025-11-12"
    }
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}