Shutdown: lessons learned in ’95

We learn what it\'s like to live through a shutdown from someone who was there last time: John Elliot.

The most recent federal government shutdown happened in 1995. John Elliott was a federal employee at that time, and he’s lived to tell about it! Now, a retirement seminar presenter for the National Institute of Transition Planning and a retired federal employee, Elliott tells Federal News Radio what the shutdown was like for feds the last time around.

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