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Government Shutdown: Déjà Vu for Veterans of 1995

What would a government shutdown have felt like? Federal workers who have been through it before tell Eve Conant about being deemed “nonessential”—and facing the same disruption 15 years later.

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U.S. Park Service Police Officer P.G. Carroll stood in front of a closed Lincoln Memorial in 1995, during the partial shutdown of the federal government. (AP Photo),CHARLES TASNADI

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