'The media isn’t telling you this!': GOP congressman shows what a government shutdown actually looks like

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., on Friday tweeted out a graphic from his office showing exactly what a partial government shutdown will look like if Congress does not pass a spending bill on December 21.

"The media isn't telling you this," he wrote in a tweet featuring a pie chart that shows only 8 percent of the federal government will not be funded beyond Dec. 21.

Vital functions of the U.S. government including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and the military are funded and will remain operational if the government "shuts down."

President Trump has threatened to veto a spending bill from Congress that doesn't appropriate $5 billion towards the construction of a border wall. Democrats have balked at this request and House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has indicated she would rather keep the "government closed forever" than give in to Trump's wall request.

If 8 percent of the government shuts down in two weeks, it will be all about the wall.

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