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Trump is ‘obsessed’ with seeming pro-worker – but his actions suggest otherwise

Agriculture and other sectors are suffering under the administration’s policies, adding up to a grim outlook

Unpaid forced leave and mass firings are hardly the first things to spring to mind as hallmarks of a golden age of the American worker.

Yet these were the possibilities floated by Donald Trump this week as he addressed a government shutdown that began on 1 October and is showing no imminent sign of ending as Democrats and Republicans attempt to stare each other down in a dispute over funding priorities.

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