2025-11-04
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The US government shutdown looks set to be the longest in history,
leaving hundreds of thousands without pay.
It's world business expressed from the BBC World Service.
I'm Leanna Byrne.
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The US government's been shut down for 34 days and by midnight Tuesday it'll be the longest in history.
Federal workers are still going without pay,
small businesses waiting on government contracts are on the brink and food aid is running dry.
Here's Abigail Smith, a school bus driver at a food bank in Detroit.
It's hard when you don't know if your next meal is going to be, you know, not there.
Some of us don't have savings.
Some of us don't even have bank accounts.
Some of us don't have money put up in a cookie jar anywhere.
We live check by check.
Food banks say they're bracing for a surge in demand as millions risk losing snap benefits.
That's the main U.S.
food aid scheme.
Michael Ottley runs the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York.