NOVATO, Calif. - The Bay Area is home to large communities of Coast Guard members and their families.

Right now, many of those households are feeling anxiety, with the government shutdown expected to hit them in the wallet in a matter of days.

Coast Guard workers set to miss first paycheck since shutdown began

Coast Guard members and their loved ones who live in Hamilton Housing in Novato are starting to get stressed about money.

What they're saying:

"There's definitely a lot to consider scaling back and things like that," said Coast Guard spouse Kain Martin.

"And then the reality that you're going to have to stretch that dollar that much further because another one is not coming for an unknown amount of time," said Coast Guard spouse Jaqi Moon.

Unless the government shutdown some

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