Jimmy Barrett and John Labus in for Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 01/07/2019, including: With the U.S. government closed for business for the 21^st time since 1976, this time with a partial shutdown, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the States Most & Least Affected by the 2019 Government Shutdown to add some hard data to all the rhetoric. WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia in terms of five key metrics, ranging from each state’s share of federal jobs to federal contract dollars per capita to the share of families receiving food stamps; The left would have us believe illegals are contributing to our economy – when the truth is most of the money they make here in the US is sent back to Mexico. Add the drain on our economy through government assistance programs (welfare) and the illegals are actually hurting our economy.