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Speaker 1: From healthcare to food, insecurity, ensuring back pay for contracted

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Speaker 1: federal workers, to keeping environmental agents from leaving their jobs.

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Speaker 2: This GOP shutdown was entirely preventable.

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Speaker 1: Everything was on the table for a talk with Congresswoman

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Speaker 1: Ayana Preslett.

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Speaker 3: Typically in a lapse of appropriations, we get an email says,

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Speaker 3: go home and wait and watch the news.

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Speaker 1: Lily Simmons is the local president of American Federation of

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Speaker 1: Government Employees, representing hundreds that work for the EPA.

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Speaker 4: Wait and watch the news to find out if you're

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Speaker 4: coming back to the office.

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Speaker 3: That is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: She tells me that since February they've lost twenty percent

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Speaker 1: of their workforce, not from layoffs, but from leaving amid

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Speaker 1: harassment and project pauses. She says people who source clean

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Speaker 1: drinking water need to go through government approvals just to

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Speaker 1: visit sites.

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Speaker 4: The next paycheck, we don't know if that's going to

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Speaker 4: come on time

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Speaker 1: And Downtown Crossing Jawill at WBZ, Boston's news radio