Largest Federal Union Turns on Democrats, Demands ‘Clean’ Vote to End 4-Week Shutdown
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The nation’s longest government shutdown in years is now in its perilous fourth week, and the political stalemate has just taken a dramatic turn. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), representing over 800,000 federal workers, has issued a powerful and public demand for Senate Democrats to immediately pass a stopgap funding bill and reopen the government.
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