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In this Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, photo visitors to Great Smoky Mountain National Park drive through the park but facilities like the Sugarlands and Cades Cove visitor centers in Townsend, Tenn. Nonprofits, businesses and state governments nationwide are putting up money and volunteer hours in a battle to keep national parks safe and clean for visitors as the partial U.S. government shutdown lingers.
(Robert Berlin/The Daily Times via AP)

Shutdown assignment: Taking care of number one

Regardless of age, experience, grade, location or job federal workers today fall into one of two categories, neither of which is good.

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