(The Center Square) – Each day the federal government remains closed will cost U.S. taxpayers about $400 million just in salary for about 750,000 furloughed federal workers. 

Workers won't collect that backpay until after they return to work when the shutdown ends, upending the lives of federal employees and their families for an uncertain period of time. Congress showed Wednesday that it was no closer to ending the ordeal. 

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