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During the shutdown, essential services were severely disrupted. The President highlighted that 20,000 flights were canceled or delayed, causing significant inconvenience and economic loss. Over a million federal workers were deprived of their paychecks, and vital social welfare programs such as food stamps faced cuts, impacting countless families. Tens of thousands of federal contractors and small businesses were also left unpaid, with the true scope of the damage expected to take weeks or months to fully quantify.