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Government shutdown enters fifth week as federal workers face missed paychecks. Senate votes continue to fail while air traffic controllers and military await pay.
Some workers in Minnesota are taking gig jobs, others substitute teaching, while other cancel vacations, defer bills and spend savings.
As more than one million government employees go without pay, many are turning to side jobs and food banks to make ends meet.
As the federal shutdown continues, The Baltimore Sun put together a list of restaurants across the state offering free meals and discounts to federal workers.
A federal judge in San Francisco will consider whether to indefinitely halt the thousands of layoffs of federal employees announced by the Trump administration since Oct. 1.
For the 12th time on Wednesday, Senate Democrats blocked Republicans' short-term funding bill to reopen the government. Democrats have demanded that extending expiring subsidies in the Affordable Care Act and reversing Republicans' Medicaid cuts be included in legislation to end the shutdown.
Within the same agencies, some employees are drawing their salaries during the shutdown, and others are working without pay.