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• TSA workers at Orlando International Airport are still recovering from a partial government shutdown that ended Friday.
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• More than 140,000 federal workers in Florida have been affected by the partial government shutdown now in its fifth week.
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• Around eleven-hundred TSA workers at Florida’s largest airport haven’t gotten paid for a week because of the government shutdown.
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• One of the potential casualties of the partial government shutdown is the food stamp program or SNAP.
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• The partial government shutdown means more than 1200 federal prison workers in Sumter County are working without pay.
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• The government shutdown has rendered most of the Kennedy Space Center’s 2,000 employees unable to work. The impact of the shutdown on Florida’s Space Coast may turn out to be long-lasting.
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• Experts say there are over one million immigration cases pending nationally. With the government shutdown extending, that number is expected to rise.
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• The Florida Department of Health says a nutrition program for mothers and babies will continue through the partial government shutdown.
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• Heather Wilkie is director of the Zebra Coalition. She says the shutdown has affected grant money that funds in-house counselors and legal advocates specially trained to work with the LGBTQ population.
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• House Speaker John Boehner announced he’s stepping down from one of the most powerful positions in politics. The decision Friday came as a shock to many, including fellow Republicans.
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