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Source: CNN – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know.
(CNN)Here is a list from CNN reporting and other news outlets of the ways, large and small, that the partial government shutdown is affecting Americans nationwide.
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75) Some diversions for furloughed federal workers: George Mason University is giving free basketball tickets, a zoo in Oregon is offering free admission.
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63) The Pentagon isn’t affected, but defense contractors who do business with multiple agencies are. Executives for two contractors told Defense One the shutdown is costing them $10 million per week in payroll for workers who have been idled. And the government is tens of millions behind in payments.
62) Lila Johnson, a federal contract employee who works as a janitor, told CNN she can’t pay her bills.
A demonstrator holds a sign, signifying hundreds of thousands of federal employees who won’t be receiving their paychecks as a result of the partial government shutdown, during a “Rally to End the Shutdown” in Washington.
Vice President Mike Pence and other White House staffers leave shutdown negotiations.
29) Employers can’t use the federal system, E-Verify, to confirm whether workers are in the US legally.
27) Border Patrol agents are still working, but without pay. Some Border Patrol officers have sued the Trump administration over the missing pay.
This photo made available by NASA shows they eye of Hurricane Michael, as seen from the International Space Station on Tropical Weather Space Station – 10 Oct 2018.
A sign placed by a volunteer is taped to a restroom door at Joshua Tree National Park on January 4, 2019 in Joshua Tree National Park, California.
This is William Striffler’s paycheck.
13) After Nature reported repairs to one of the Hubble telescope’s main instruments might have to wait until after the shutdown, NASA clarified on January 11 that the repairs would not be delayed.
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