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Thursday marked the 30th day of the government shutdown and a month of unpaid work for more than a million people in the United States.

Many of those workers not getting paid are already struggling to pay their bills. They are worried what will happen in a few days with the start of a new month.

Waiting for your paycheck can be stressful, but imagine if you didn't know when it would be coming. With no end in sight to the government shutdown, Accountability Reporter Isabella Ledonne sat down with two federal government workers dealing with the impact.

"It's the people of this country that pay when these shutdowns happen," Michael Thiemann, a federal government worker, said.

Thiemann and his wife Lisa work for the Social Security Administration. They'

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