After you file

As of 9:30 a.m. in NY I'm still on one bar. Received and being processed. It's one week since my return was accepted. I keep comparing the amount of time it took IRS to approve my return last year. I received my refund on 2/15/18 - two weeks after acceptance, but we didn't have a government shutdown last year. IRS is probably backlogged. I keep reading on this site and others about people who e-filed on the same day I did or later getting their DD dates. I keep trying to convince myself that the IRS is processing millions of returns from early filers and eventually will get to mine. I don't have the EITC and ACTC credits that the IRS won't start processing until 2/15/19 - the day of another looming government shutdown. We have trump the dump to blame for all the delay.