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Carol. rest assured congress will be paid even though congress has not done its job and could be putting us on the brink of a shutdown. look at other services here that are incredibly important, federal courts can remain open for ten days, enough operating functions for that, passport offices unless they're in a federal office building passports, visas will be issued. air traffic control, border protection, key parts of the department of defense, the power grade will be maintained, all are still opened. there's something called mandatory spending, social security, medicare, medicaid, food stam...
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