WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick winners and losers — who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.
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The Capitol is seen at dusk as Democrats and Republicans in Congress are angrily blaming each other and refusing to budge from their positions on funding the government, in Washington, Sept. 30.
J. Scott Applewhite, Associated Press
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Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget director, listens as he addresses members of the media outside the West Wing at the White House in Washington, Sept. 29, in Washington.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., flanked by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Rules Committee, left, and Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., tells reporters he is starting a project along with the speaker of the Israeli Knesset to rally global leaders to support President Donald Trump's nomination for next year's Nobel Peace Prize, as the government shutdown enters its third week, at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 14.
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves and Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.
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