Taxacom: NCBI funding

[Adam Cotton]

I have just heard from a colleague that the current US government has 
stopped the funding for NCBI (GenBank) so he could not upload sequences 
for specimens in a new publication due to be submitted to a journal soon.

Does anyone have any information whether this will be permanent, and 
also what will happen to all of the sequence data currently stored there 
and used for analysis?

Thanks for any information on this rather worrying situation.

Adam.