news hour: And then we have a shutdown and so they can't go to work, and so then they have the vacation but they don't have to use their vacation days, Hassett told PBS during an appearance on News Hour, according to CNN. On Saturday, the ongoing partial government shutdown broke the record to become the longest government shutdown in US history -- with no end in sight. Huge share of government workers were going to take vacation days, say between Christmas and New Year's. The shutdown has impacted roughly a quarter of the federal government and hundreds of thousands of federal workers. And then they come back and then they get their back pay, then they're, in some sense they're better off, Hassett said. An estimated 800,000 federal workers have been affected by the lapse in funding -- either by having to work without pay while it lasts or by being furloughed.
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