As this shutdown stretches into day eight, multiple sources tell NBC news, the president lowered his demand for border barrier money to $2.5 billion, down from $5 billion, but not all the way down to the 1.3 democrats are offering. For now, no deal, with zero votes scheduled on capitol hill. That leaves some eight hundred thousand federal workers wondering when they’ll get paid, with payings starting to spread faster across the shutdown nation.

January 2nd, that’s when the smithsonian museums and national zoo will close. On january 3rd the new congress comes in and democrats take control of the House. But if that doesn’t shake loose some kind of compromise, january 11th is when most workers will get hit hard, missing a paycheck with no way of knowing when their next one will arrive. And for government workers the hits keep on coming, a 2019 pay freeze the white house has been talking about for months, will go into effect for federal employees in the new year after the president signed and ordered for it yesterday.

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