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UNCOVERED: Frustrated federal employees line up for food as us shutdown wears on | History Defined

Many federal employees are being forced to seek food assistance amid a government shutdown in the United States (Credit: AFP)

Standing in the middle of a parking lot in suburban Washington, surrounded by hundreds of federal employees waiting for food handouts amid the US government shutdown, Diane Miller summed it up simply.

"How am I gonna eat?" the 74-year-old public servant asked bitterly.

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