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Government spending. D. C. Mayor, vincent gray issued a Statement Today demanding a meeting with president obama and congressional leaders. The mayor says the shutdown is having dire consequences on the city and federal workers who live in d. C. Have been able to file unemployment claims because st mayor kept city workers on the job. However, Bruce Johnson reports that the people seeking jobless benefits, right about the time the city runs out of money to pay its workers. Those individuals have to file here in the district of columbia. At the d. C. Employment services office, 11,000 federal workers have signed up online or in person to collect benefits since the shutdown began. How many federal employees work in the city and could file for unemployment . 300,000. Could this office handle that kind of number . No. Congress agreed to pay federal workers for the time spent on fu ....