As the government shutdown heads into a third week, it's taking a toll. The nation's top nuclear weapons agency announced it's furloughing about 80% of its workers due to a lack of funding. The Supreme Court and federal courts are also reducing operations. And the Army Corps of Engineers is pausing $11 billion in projects.

The Senate will take up a bill next week to pay federal employees but it's unclear if it will pass.

Neither party is budging an inch on its demands. House Republicans passed a short-term funding bill, but it can't get out of the Senate without Democratic support. And Democrats have tied that support to an extension of health care subsidies. Caught in the middle are two groups of people whose lives hang in the balance -- regular Americans struggling to afford health car

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