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Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are missing their first full paycheck Friday, after the Senate rejected dueling partisan bills to pay them during the government shutdown.

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WTOP spoke to one federal worker who’s no longer being paid and did not want to be identified.

“I’m scared to death,”

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