A man emerges from the Federal Triangle metro station in Washington October 2, 2013. Federal Triangle is occupied by city and federal office buildings. Up to one million federal workers were thrown temporarily out of work on Tuesday as the U.S. government partially shut down for the first time in 17 years in a standoff between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans over healthcare reforms.
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