NBC晚间新闻 美国政府关门仍在继续

As this shutdown stretches into day eight, multiple sources tell NBC news, the president lowered his demand for border barrier money to $2.5 billion, down from $5 billion, but not all the way down to the 1.3 democrats¹ are offering. For now, no deal, with zero votes scheduled on capitol hill. That leaves some eight hundred thousand federal workers wondering when they’ll get paid, with payings starting to spread faster across the shutdown nation.

January 2nd, that’s when the smithsonian museums and national zoo will close. On january 3rd the new congress comes in and democrats take control of the House. But if that doesn’t shake loose some kind of compromise, january 11th is when most workers will get hit hard, missing a paycheck with no way of knowing when their next one will arrive. And for government workers the hits keep on coming, a 2019 pay freeze the white house has been talking about for months, will go into effect for federal employees in the new year after the president signed and ordered for it yesterday.

政府部分关闭已经到了第八天，NBC新闻从多家消息源得知，特朗普总统将他对边境墙修建资金的需求从50亿美元降至25亿美元，但并没有降到民主党提出的13亿美元。现在美国国会还没达成协议。这使得大约八十万的联邦工作人员想知道他们什么时候能拿到工资，在这个政府关闭的国家，拿不到工资的情况正在迅速蔓延。1月2日，史密森学会博物馆和国家动物园将会关闭。1月3日，新一届国会上任，民主党将重新控制众议院。但是如果这不能使双方达成某种妥协，那1月11日将会是多数工人遭遇重大打击的时候，他们会没有工资，而且不知道下次什么时候才能拿到工资。现在政府雇员面临着接连不断的打击，昨天，特朗普总统签署了白宫已讨论数月的政府雇员工资冻结行政令，它将在新年生效。

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n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》