Daily Intelligencer Dec. 21, 2018

About 800,000 of the 2.1 million federal workers nationwide will go without pay over Christmas if the government shuts down tonight. Thousands more federal contractors would also lose pay — and unlike full-time employees who work alongside them in the same offices, they won’t be eligible for back pay. Their plight, however, does not move everyone. Presented with the notion that a shutdown would create hardship for public employees, Representative Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, resorted to ridicule. “Who’s living that they’re not going to make it to the next

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