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The store offers everything from basic tools to pan for gold in the river, such as pickaxes and scoops, to pinpointers and high-tech metal detectors that can cost thousands of dollars.

"This is not something extraordinary or luxurious, this is something basic as getting food for my kids," Guzman told AFP.

“And if you do just part of this, it will reduce pressure for them to do all of it, to do their basic job, and that is reopen the government.”

Many of the furloughed employees, according to Muthiah, are contacting utility companies to negotiate paying bills and putting “basic things” on credit cards.

Most gay people, he said, support their basic rights, including official documents that reflect a person’s gender identity and access to gender reassignment treatments for minors.