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By January 17, the partial government shutdown had reached 27 days, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers either furloughed or laboring without pay and pushing agencies into stopgap mode. The longer it dragged on, the more Trump’s border-wall standoff looked like a self-own with real economic and administrative consequences.
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By January 17, the partial government shutdown had reached 27 days, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers either furloughed or laboring without pay and pushing agencies into stopgap mode. The longer it dragged on, the more Trump’s border-wall standoff looked like a self-own with real economic and administrative consequences.
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By January 17, the partial government shutdown had reached 27 days, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers either furloughed or laboring without pay and pushing agencies into stopgap mode. The longer it dragged on, the more Trump’s border-wall standoff looked like a self-own with real economic and administrative consequences.
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