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Three Million Public Sector Workers Pad California’s Democrat Party

By Justin Shores

Nov 10, 2025
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Three Million Public Sector Workers Pad California’s Democrat Party

As the record-breaking 40-day federal government shutdown drags into its sixth week (with furloughed workers missing paychecks, SNAP benefits slashed for millions, and thousands of flights canceled daily) a bipartisan Senate deal has finally coalesced to reopen agencies through late Janu…

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