And during that shutdown, millions of people across our country felt the consequences of Republican dysfunction. And federal workers were amongst the hardest hit. But Unlike federal employees, the thousands of federal contract workers who keep this government running, including janitorial, food and security service workers, had no assurances that they would ever see a single dollar of the wages that they lost when the government reopened. Their back pay did not come. And again, these are some of the hardest working, lowest paid, federal contracted workers. And these are workers who are overwhelmingly women, immigrants and people of color. (00:17–00:34)
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Asserts that federal contract workers did not have assurances of receiving back pay after the shutdown.
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