“So they’re taking a risk by having a shutdown,” Trump said during an event at the White House. Thursday is Day 2 of the shutdown, and already the dial is turned high. “The cruelty is the point.”The economic effectsWith no easy endgame at hand, the standoff risks dragging deeper into October, when federal workers who remain on the job will begin missing paychecks. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated roughly 750,000 federal workers would be furloughed on any given day during the shutdown, a loss of $400 million daily in wages. “We’re willing to have a conversation about ensuring that Americans continue to have access to health care,” Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday at the White House.