Government shutdown could take wide ranging toll on workers, services on Long Island

For Long Islanders, this U.S. government shutdown carries potentially bigger stakes and far more sweeping impacts than previous federal closures.

Congressional auditors are predicting as many as 750,000 federal employees nationally could be furloughed each day, and agencies have plans outlining significant scaling back or halting of some services. On top of that, President Donald Trump and his lieutenants have threatened that mass firings could occur.

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