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Ellen Mei was interviewed about the food assistance program during the shutdown. She received a termination letter the next day. 

The USDA employee warned that the shutdown could have negative impacts on the millions of Americans who rely on the federal government to put food on the table. 

Jenna Norton, a program director at the National Institutes of Health, says she has been put on paid leave following the end of the government shutdown. 

Federal worker Ellen Mei joins Ana Cabrera to share why she says she is being fired in retaliation for speaking out to MSNBC about the government shutdown and cuts to SNAP benefits. 

Finances are becoming dire for the more than 750,000 government workers who have been going without pay for a full month. 

Federal workers gave what they could and told fellow government employees where they can find help as many work without pay.

Federal workers and advocates held a rally Thursday to call for SNAP funding on day 30 of the government shutdown. More than 42 million people nationwide could lose access to food aid in the coming days. 

The federal government shutdown has dragged into another week, and Republicans and Democrats appear no closer to ending it. 

Federal workers at multiple agencies experienced their first entirely missed paycheck, and millions are about to lose access to food aid as the government shutdown sees no end in sight. 

Hosted by the Federal Unionists Network, Free DC and other activist organizations, the rally and food drive brought together food bank workers, faith leaders and furloughed federal workers who demanded that the Trump administration release $6 billion in emergency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps 42 million people pay for groceries every month. 

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

Huge crowds marched in major cities and smaller gatherings were held across the country for “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump’s administration. 

President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday afternoon announced that it has begun firing federal workers, OMB Director Russ Vought wrote on X. 

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

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. 

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. 

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). 

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

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. 

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

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." 

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

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

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. 

Now that the shutdown has started, FUN is organizing a response among federal unionists, stating: “This is much more than a fight between branches of government or political parties. This government shutdown is a showdown between the public and the billionaires.” 

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. 

Two of the federal workers who filed an emergency complaint about the Department of Housing and Urban Development speak out about the Trump administration’s actions. 

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

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. 

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.

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. 

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 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. 

Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and DEI in disguise. 

Whistleblowers working in the federal government are going public to expose an emergency situation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development.