Federal employees face paycheck delays, Dyess personnel will still get paid at this time The United States went into a federal government shutdown on October 1. I sat down with Senator Ted Cruz to talk about how this shutdown will be impacting Abilene and the Big Country. https://ktxs.com/news/local/federal-employees-face-paycheck-delays-dyess-personnel-will-still-get-paid-at-this-time KTXS Television | brenna.gibbons.news

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The government shutdown is now in its 30th day — and tensions in Congress are rising, though bipartisan talks have been ongoing. Republican leader Sen. John Thune and New Mexico Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján sparred in the Senate chamber Wednesday, after Sen. Luján and other Senate Democrats introduced a bill to fully fund nutritional programs like WIC and SNAP. Sen. Thune said Republicans who have voted to reopen the government want those programs to be funded when the government opens back up: