WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown stretches into its fourth week, House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers warned Friday that the agency overseeing the nation’s nuclear stockpile plans to furlough most of its staff.

The National Nuclear Security Administration is about to run out of funding and could furlough about 80% of its staff, according to the Armed Services Committee.

“These are not employees that you want to go home,” Rogers, R-Saks, said at a press conference with House GOP leadership. “They’re managing and handling a very important strategic asset for us. They need to be at work and being paid.”

Rogers said the ongoing shutdown, which currently has no end in sight, has “very real national security implications.”

“We’re in the middle of contract negotiations for nuclear

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