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She has since sold off her gold bit by bit to get by.

It's lost customers during the week and it doesn't get orders to deliver to the gates of the steelworks, but changes mean the business is still getting by.

“I would have done the family piece first, which is affordable childcare, paid leave, extension of the child tax credit,” she said, basic issues facing Americans who “need to just get by today.”

Ms Hurst said this has had "a huge impact" on her financially, costing her in lost interest and forcing her to pull money from other places to get by.

"It's hard enough as it is to survive because of the price of animal feed and fuel – every day it's more difficult for farmers to get by," he says.