This is the longest shutdown in US history

The ongoing partial government shutdown became the longest government shutdown in US history on Saturday, when it entered its 22nd day.

The previous record dates back to the Clinton administration when a 21-day shutdown resulted from a clash between President Bill Clinton and the GOP Congress that lasted from December 1995 to January 1996.

Today is not the 24th day of the shutdown, and there is still no end in sight to the current shutdown, which has impacted roughly a quarter of the federal government and hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

Here's a look at how other previous shutdowns stack up:

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