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It's Wednesday, October 8th. You thought the shutdown was hurting federal employees? Just wait. We'd start here.

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There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of and will take care of them in a different way.

Is this a serious threat or a political maneuver?

America's top prosecutor goes under oath.

You lie, you admit it you lie to be elected a U.S.

senator.

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From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Brad Milky.

Every government shutdown operates on a few key principles.

One is obviously that when Congress doesn't vote to approve a funding bill, there's no money flowing in the government.

Essential services only, and even those workers who are told to report to work don't get paid. In the meantime, the lives of these federal workers are turned upside down.

Other Americans get more and more frustrated, eventually depending on which party is feeling more heat,

one side caves or both sides compromise, and the government finally gets on with it.

After that, and this is key here, pretty much everyone gets their back pay.

That applies to members of the military who have to keep working during the shutdown,

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