TAOS — Northern New Mexico's largest electric cooperative announced on Monday it will help members impacted by federal job furloughs this month keep their lights on as a government shutdown in Washington grinds into its second week.

"It really goes to being kind of a good neighbor with federal employees who, by no fault of their own, are being furloughed," Kit Carson Electric Cooperative CEO Luis Reyes Jr. said. "And I think the difference in this one is there's even talks about layoffs of good employees."

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