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[quote=Anonymous]This shutdown is a waste of money is so many ways. [quote] Even though the government has been partly shut down, it’s still costing money, according to a report Monday. Shuttered museums and national parks can’t collect fees or sell souvenirs, the Internal Revenue Service is collecting less taxes, federal employees still have to shut down operations and the hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed will likely get back pay — for not working, Bloomberg News reported. “The amount of money we are going to spend on furloughed workers who aren’t going to do anything but will get paid is pure waste,” Gordon Gray, director of fiscal policy at American Action Forum, a center-right nonprofit, told the website. Congress approved about $2.5 billion in back pay and other compensation for around 850,000 furloughed workers after the 16-day government shutdown in 2013, the Office of Management and Budget said, according to the report.[/quote][/quote]
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