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More lawmakers say they're rejecting paychecks as government shutdown drags on

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A growing number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have declared they're forgoing their paychecks as the government shutdown drags on.The federal government has been shut down for nearly a week after Senate Democrats rejected Republicans' plan to fund agencies through Nov. 21 multiple times.Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, Tom Barrett, R-Mich., Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, and Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., are among the Republicans who wrote to the Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives asking for their pay to be withheld during a shutdown.SHUTDOWN...

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