Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins told Newsmax on Tuesday the shutdown has been a “bad nightmare” for veterans who work for the federal government.
Collins told “Finnerty” many veterans work as air traffic controllers or as Transportation Security Administration agents and have been going without a paycheck for the past 42 days.
“All military members, unfortunately, were not even able to be paid,” Collins said. “You had a lot of people still working within the military who were not getting paid.”
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