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Navigating day one of a government shutdown

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The Jackie Walorski Veterans Affairs Clinic in Mishawaka was business as usual Wednesday despite the ongoing government shutdown. ABC57 learned that not only is the Veterans Health Administration already funded through the rest of the year, but the VA is totally exempt from the impacts of a shutdown, and its workers are still getting paid.

"I think it's ridiculous, I think that senators are the ones that are holding it up. They should be forced to either do their job or get fired like they Do in the regular world," said local veteran Donald Lawrence.

That said, his experience at the VA Wednesday went sm

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