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For one civil servant, the news of a possible resolution to the government shutdown isn’t exactly hopeful, E. Tammy Kim reports. Plus:

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Outside a Social Security Administration in New York. Photograph by Zhang Fengguo / Xinhua / Getty

E. Tammy Kim

A contributing writer who covers politics and labor.

Congress appears to be moving — slowly —toward a deal to end the longest government shutdown ever. In the past forty days, the Administration, backed by the Supreme Court, cu

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