{"id":28458,"date":"2019-01-09T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28458"},"modified":"2019-01-09T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T19:22:24","slug":"us-government-shutdown-takes-toll-on-federal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28458","title":{"rendered":"US government shutdown takes toll on federal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65.091796875\">\n<p>The impacts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/gov-shutdown-long-affected-190107150120233.html\">a federal government shutdown<\/a> continue to spread across the United States as it enters its 19th day.<\/p>\n<p>The fight is over more than $5bn that US President Donald Trump wants for building a border wall.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats say they simply will not give him the money, calling it unnecessary. Trump defended his position and the shutdown decision in a speech on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of federal workers will not get a cheque next payday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Patty Culhane reports from Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impacts of a federal government shutdown continue to spread across the United States as it enters its 19th day. The fight is over more than $5bn that US President Donald Trump wants for building a border wall. Democrats say they simply will not give him the money, calling it unnecessary. Trump defended his position&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}