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The partial shutdown of the government extending until 2019, here is what you need to know about the effects.
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A traveler passes by a TSA metal detector at the Washington Dulles International Airport on August 10, 2018. The number of People among the employees of the Transportation Security Administration has increased since the partial closure of the government in early December. The agency announced Friday that 22 remaining people from the TSA were working without pay. (Photo: Bart Jansen, United States TODAY)

The number of sick days among Transportation Security Administration employees has increased since the partial closure of the government by the closure of the government on 22 December, leaving TSA staff at work.

An increase in calls – workers who say they are too sick to work, started during the holidays and has grown, but the phenomenon has a "minimal" impact on the domestic market.

"The effectiveness of security will not be compromised and the performance standards will not change … To this day, however,

The information was made public in response to a report by CNN that many calls from workers at the TSA had affected four major airports.

Of the 2.2 million passengers examined Thursday by the agency, 99.8% waited less than 30 minutes, according to the statement of the TSA

As the closing moves toward a third week, tens of thousands of TSA officers are among federal employees who work without pay.

The President Donald Trump and lawmakers came out Friday afternoon of their last round of talks at the White House, to indicate however that an agreement to end the partial closure could be very far away.

Trump, who demanded $ 5.6 billion to help pay a border wall, he acknowledged that he had warned Democratic leaders that a stalemate could last for months or even years, if an agreement could not be found on the financing of the wall.

Contribution: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY & # 39; HUI

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