CNN reporter: Shutdown risks asteroid strike!

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January 21, 2018 CNN reporter: Shutdown risks asteroid strike! By Rick Moran

A CNN reporter claims that because of the shutdown, NASA won't be able to track an incoming asteroid which will make its closest approach to earth on February 4th.

We are all going to die because...Trump!

CNN reporter Tom Foreman made the sensational claim when discussing what government services have been suspended because of the shutdown.

Here's a partial transcript:

FOREMAN: "Roughly 1.9 million government workers would be considered essential and stay on the job. Air traffic controllers, security officers, food inspectors, prison guards, Social Security checks would go out. The post office would be open. But at a steep price to many workers." MULVANEY: "The military will still go to work. They will not get paid. The border will still be patrolled. They will not get paid." FOREMAN: "Meanwhile many services would be stopped or delayed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would back down its flu tracking program even as the nation faces the worst outbreak in years. Some senior nutrition programs would be paused. 200,000 passport applications went unprocessed in 1995. Congress funds much of the scientific research done in this country. In 2013, that meant some experiments went on hold in 2013 and suffered costly losses of data. In space same year, for more than two weeks, NASA reportedly stopped monitoring potentially dangerous asteroids. A big one, by the way, is expected to brush by Earth on February 4th.

"As for the 417 national parks, the administration wants to keep limited access wherever possible, but service would be reduced and 19 of the Smithsonian’s museums would shut their doors."

If you call a miss by 2.6 million miles a "brush by earth," you are a moron.

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