You are misunderstanding what you learned in school. A territory is an area that does not have it's own independent government and is instead owned and controlled by a government elsewhere.
Puerto Rico is a US territory for example. Unlike the 50 States in the United States, there is no governing body that resides in Puerto Rico to govern. Instead, a committee in Washington DC controls what happens in Puerto Rico.
The shutdown just means that the government didn't approve for people to be paid to perform some of it's functions. It doesn't mean that the US government no longer exists. Eventually congress will get their act together and those people will be paid and services will be restored. This is largely a paper exercise.
Is the US still a country? or is it now a territory?
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You are misunderstanding what you learned in school. A territory is an area that does not have it's own independent government and is instead owned and controlled by a government elsewhere.
Puerto Rico is a US territory for example. Unlike the 50 States in the United States, there is no governing body that resides in Puerto Rico to govern. Instead, a committee in Washington DC controls what happens in Puerto Rico.
The shutdown just means that the government didn't approve for people to be paid to perform some of it's functions. It doesn't mean that the US government no longer exists. Eventually congress will get their act together and those people will be paid and services will be restored. This is largely a paper exercise.
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Get their act together. I don't believe in such fairy tales.