LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick winners and losers — who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves and Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.
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