Beyond the Federal employees are all of the private sector employees who are being impacted very sharply. and those employees. unlike furloughed Federal workers who expect to be reimbursed eventually for time off the job. most employees of Federal contractors and vendors will not be paid retroactively. Mr. President. the impact of this is reaching not only locally and nationally. it is also reaching internationally. Visa applications by foreigners to come to this country have come to a complete halt. There are 20.000 to 30.000 applications made a day. Many of these people want to come for business purposes. for tourism. which is. of course. important to the functioning of our economy. We have just cut that off. These visas are backed up. Americans are backed up now waiting for passports. In many instances. people have forfeited payments for travel arrangements.
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