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A congressional committee on China last month discussed Hong Kong’s role as an alleged money-laundering and sanctions-evasion hub, and as a spigot for Chinese companies seeking cash.

Analysts are scrounging for any signal about the economy’s trajectory this month because the government shutdown has turned off the spigot of official government data.

State investigators, the lawsuit alleges, found that the grass was brown, weeds and dirt covered markers and water spigots were inoperable.

You don’t turn the funding on and off like a spigot.

“CHSRA relied on the false hope of an unending spigot of Federal taxpayer dollars,” the Federal Railroad Administration’s acting administrator Drew Feeley wrote.