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Lives on the line to protect the president, his family, and other key american officials. >> secret service and military. these are great people. >> reporter: right now the u.s. secret service is doing it without pay. >> throughout the agency, the morale is starting to deteriorate. >> reporter: of the over 7,222 secret service employees, 5,978 are currently working without pay. 1,244 are furloughed. >> secret service agents are not getting paid. >> reporter: former agent jonathan bawakrow says many see short-term debt mounting which creates a threat and puts secret service jobs at risk. >> if ...

29th address or deliver it in writing. >> this is -- there's hundreds of people, most of thiem those people are either furloughed or victims of the shut -- the president's shutdown. but that isn't the point. the point is security. >> homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen pushing back insisting that her department is fully prepared to support and secure the state of the union. house gop leader kevin mccarthy cuesi i cuesing pa laossive playing politics calling her behavior unbecoming of speaker. >> the government is closed because of president trump. if it continued to be closed on 29th,...

Assemble and mobilize 5,978 ships like they did in world war ii. that enough time to construct not just one titanic. how about two? because that's no ship. and the five and a half trillion bucs we head to our budget proves we're in deep. >> so glad you had to reach that. >> neil: it is interesting, took this long to get this. >> something so simplistic and so insincere. the administration and apparently senate democrat does not believe, we have a spending problem and don't believe the deficit is a problem.