In the midst of the government shutdown, some D.C. college students are rethinking their career plans.

Amid mass layoffs and spending cuts at the federal government, Clayton Detant, an international affairs major at Howard University, and other D.C. students are trying to decide what’s next after graduation.

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“I always perceived myself to get that Ph.D., become a researcher and go directly into the State Department, utilize my research to benefit the government, but that landscape has changed a lot over time,” Detant said.

According to Howard University, the number of federal recruiters is decreasing this year. They would typically have about a dozen recruiters at career fairs, but this year they had only three.

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