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Delgado, Maloney Among Members Of Congress Donating, Withholding Paychecks During Shutdown Delgado, Maloney Among Members Of Congress Donating, Withholding Paychecks During Shutdown
Delgado, Maloney Among Members Of Congress Donating, Withholding Paychecks During Shutdown With the country mired in the longest government shutdown in American history, dozens of members of Congress have vowed to refuse their paychecks or donate their earnings in a show of solidarity with federal employees who have been without pay for weeks. The New York State Department of Labor said that there are approximately 114,000 federal employees in the state, all of whom have been without a paycheck since the shutdown began on Dec. 22 as politicians haggle about immigration reform. In total, an estimated 800,000 federal workers have been without work for weeks. Congress has passed a b…

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