The JFK Library in Dorchester is one of the spots in Massachusetts that will remain closed due to the government shutdown .

And the Senate isn't expected back in session until Friday.

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With no easy endgame at hand, the standoff risks dragging deeper into October, when federal workers who remain on the job will begin missing paychecks. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated roughly 750,000 federal workers would be furloughed on any given day during the shutdown, a loss of $400 million daily in wages.

"We are going to have to lay some people off if the shutdown continues. We don’t like that. We don’t necessarily want to do it," Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday. "But we’re going to do what w

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