wife

"I won't be doing this any more. I have three lovely kids in Australia that need me. I have a lovely wife that needs me."

Mr Bridges, 76, says keeping his two-bed bungalow near Braintree warm was a necessity as his wife has spinal stenosis and is in "a lot of pain" when it gets colder.

In the less than 80 days until the next potential government shutdown, Ms Johnson, the military wife, said she would be preparing, just in case.

Beth Johnson is accustomed to the uncertainty that comes with being a military wife - picking up and moving her family every three years.

She and Campbell had also allegedly conspired with McCluskie to siphon money from Becerra’s dormant campaign account to pay McCuskie’s wife for a fake, “no-show” job working for Williamson.