Most of them have less than $3,000 in savings, and one in five of them only have one source of income. So this is very real for these folks. Now, The 500,000 civilian federal employees, they're going to miss their first paycheck next week. and then the rest of them the week thereafter. This is going to get really painful for a lot of civilian employees. Obviously, I think about the DoD civilian employees. (11:07–11:14)
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