Thousands of federal employees are on furlough after the federal government shut down overnight. 

The government shutdown is now in its third week with no end in sight. Workers are struggling to cope.

As the government shutdown drags on, furloughed employees are struggling to make ends meet, including a Marine veteran and government employee in Queens. 

A whistleblower report by four staff attorneys—Paul Osadebe, Palmer Heenan, and two anonymous complainants—at the Office of Fair Housing, a unit of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), highlights the real-world effects of these nonactions. 

Rogers has been a microbiologist with the Food and Drug Administration for 16 years and is now among hundreds of thousands of federal employees not working. She is also a chapter president with the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). 

It can be hard to make sense of how American democracy is doing given the incessant stream of autocratic actions by Donald Trump and the over 100 court rulings against him and other pushback. 

As the government shutdown stretches into its second week, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not working — and more are not getting paid. The White House has thrown into question whether some will ever be made whole. 

A number of furloughed federal workers are concerned about back pay when the government reopens, as the White House considers whether those employees are entitled to that money when they weren't working. 

Furloughed federal employees are about to start missing paychecks, but they aren't ready to give in yet: "We are willing to take some temporary pain.

Around 40 furloughed federal workers lobbied Senate offices on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, as the federal government shutdown entered week two. 

As the government shutdown continues in its now second week, federal workers in Chicago have major concerns, especially after the Trump administration said some furloughed workers may not be getting their legally mandated back pay after the shutdown ends. 

The shutdown is the latest stressor for Colorado’s federal workers as the Trump administration works to slash the government workforce. 

James Jones, a maintenance mechanic at Blue Ridge Parkway National Park, says his restoration work has come to a halt during the government shutdown.

As Washington, D.C. weathered Day 2 of a sweeping government shutdown, on Thursday (October 2) federal workers' union leader April Goggans strove to reassure sidelined employees at her agency while enduring her own anxiety over a likely missed paycheck due to the funding impasse in Congress. 

The government shutdown is now in its fourth day, two Idaho union leaders say federal workers are speaking out against what they call an attack on public service. 

Cameron Cochems, lead TSA officer at Boise Airport, says while he doesn’t have a financial safety net, he does have a supportive network of family and friends, something some officers might not have.

Furloughed federal workers and a union leader spoke out after the government shutdown. 

Many have been “on edge for months”, according to James Kirwan, who works as a labor attorney inside a government agency. Now the Trump administration is threatening to implement another sweeping wave of cuts to their ranks. 

Two civil rights lawyers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Palmer Heenan and Paul Osadebe, were fired from their posts after speaking out against the Trump administration. 

Many in the Bay Area woke up Wednesday bracing for what could be an extended government shutdown that began overnight, spurred by a deadlock on spending bills in the Senate.