Payday goes away

The federal shutdown hit an ominous milestone for government employees. Today marks the first time workers, whether on Capitol Hill or in offices across the country, will miss a whole paycheck.

Already, many of the staff aren’t working or being paid, including all interns and part-time personnel in D.C. legislative offices. A number of federal offices providing services across the country went dark for most of October as employees stayed home without pay. According to the Bipartisan Policy Center , more than 700,000 federal employees.

But around the same number continue to work, even though they have no money coming their way until Congress reaches a deal to fund the government. May had Oct. 10 paychecks impacted, but the Oct. 24 pay period will mean no money regard

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