{"id":56113,"date":"2025-10-25T06:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/federal-workers-squeezed-as-shutdown-drags-on-i-cant-believe-were-not-going-to-get-paid\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:57:37","slug":"federal-workers-squeezed-as-shutdown-drags-on-i-cant-believe-were-not-going-to-get-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/federal-workers-squeezed-as-shutdown-drags-on-i-cant-believe-were-not-going-to-get-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal workers squeezed as shutdown drags on: \u2018I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re not going to get paid\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anxiety and economic stress among federal employees as Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked on bill<\/p>\n<p>More furloughs, more anxiety and more economic stress are bearing down on federal employees as the shutdown of the federal government continues into its fourth week with Republicans and Democrats at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/11\/republicans-democrats-us-government-shutdown\">standstill<\/a> on negotiating a budget deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no sight of this ending and we\u2019re starting to wonder if we\u2019re going to be made whole and if this is going to continue into the next round of pay, which is what we\u2019re headed into now. On Friday, we will be missing our first full paycheck,\u201d Johnny Jones, council secretary treasurer for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) TSA Council 100, and a TSA employee in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/25\/federal-workers-government-shutdown-pay-anxiety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anxiety and economic stress among federal employees as Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked on bill More furloughs, more anxiety and more economic stress are bearing down on federal employees as the shutdown of the federal government continues into its fourth week with Republicans and Democrats at a standstill on negotiating a budget deal. \u201cThere\u2019s no &#8230; <a title=\"Federal workers squeezed as shutdown drags on: \u2018I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re not going to get paid\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/federal-workers-squeezed-as-shutdown-drags-on-i-cant-believe-were-not-going-to-get-paid\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal workers squeezed as shutdown drags on: \u2018I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re not going to get paid\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}