* Shutdown affects 700,000 federal workers, including scientists and administrators * Essential workers face financial strain without pay during shutdown * Trump suggests some furloughed workers may not deserve back pay By Andrea Shalal and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is proposing that federal employees idled by the government shutdown would not automatically get retroactive pay when the standoff ends, according to an internal document described to Reuters on Tuesday. If adopted as official policy, that could threaten back pay for up to 700,000 furloughed scientists, administrators and other civil servants who have been ordered not to work since the shutdown began on October 1. That would counteract guidance by Trump's own person

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