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Posted on 11/02/2025 11:38:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Finances are becoming dire for the more than 750,000 government workers who have been going without pay for a full month.
The government has been closed for a full month — and federal workers who have missed two paychecks are now using credit cards to pay their bills, visiting food pantries to stock their kitchens and reviewing their bank accounts, plotting exactly how long they can manage without a salary.
The answer is not much longer for Cynthia Brown, a Government Publishing Office staffer who has been working without pay. The 53-year-old said she is barely eating, subsisting on coffee and protein shakes.
She said she has already sold everything she could find in her house, including two old iPhones, and started a GoFundMe to help cover her expenses. She had hoped to drive for DoorDash to supplement her income, but her car was repossessed after she missed a loan deadline because of the shutdown.
Brown spends her days ensuring that the government keeps a record of congressional proceedings, so she has closely followed the debate around reopening. And that has only made her situation — and the nation’s — feel more dire, she said: “It is going nowhere. That is what scares me. They are not making any progress.”
Starting to cry, Brown added, “They hate each other so much, and we — we are just caught in the middle.”
Federal funds ran out Oct. 1 after lawmakers failed to approve an extension as Democrats and Republicans clashed over health care policy. Democratic lawmakers want to extend subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans before they will agree to reopen the government. Republicans say they won’t negotiate on health care until the government has reopened.
Starting this weekend, the impasse will also generate direct consequences for millions...
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Most Americans can manage some adversity, others just can’t. Those are the ones who make the news.
Government employees have always been bottom of the barrel types who could not cut it in the Private sector.
Dear Public Sector,
Welcome to real life.
Yours,
The Private Sector
“””She had hoped to drive for DoorDash to supplement her income, but her car was repossessed after she missed a loan deadline because of the shutdown. “””
I’d say she was deep in debt long before the shutdown. Cars don’t get repossessed that fast.
They can repossess after one payment is missed but usually they wait 90 days.
In this case the company knows that the government will reopen at some point and they will get paid so mostly they will tack penalties and interest on to the loan and do nothing.
If you are a good long time customer they often will not even do that.
Hang on Cynthia! I’m sending a waaaambulance to your house right now, along with the world’s smallest violin.
Nailed it.
Funny how none of these federal workers have a stocked refrigerator or pantry or money in savings.
I heard that dancing nurses help make everything better.
I can’t imagine your car being repossessed immediately with just one missed payment, unless you were a very bad risk with a super high interest rate because of past financial failures.
Either that or you’re just a liar.
They’re better than the dancing fatties in the Ozempic commercials.
I don’t remember the Washington post writing any sob stories about the people that were fired for not taking the vaccine. I don’t think I hate the left enough.
exactly.
Liars. No back-up food, money, or help from relatives? Pure BS. And if you are that ill prepared, perhaps you’re too stupid to survive.
Most lenders will work with government employees knowing that they, unlike many in the private sector, will get back pay once the resolution is passed. This is also where church relationships can pay big dividends.
Or you were already two payments behind, on Oct. 1st.
So much for setting aside a 3-6 month contingency fund. Sure some legitimately just can’t do it. MAny are mad at every politician with an “R” next to their name.
None will look themselves in the mirror and consider that the $12 a day for Starbucks coffee and a muffin was not a wise decision. Or going out to lunch 4-5 days a week at $15-20 a day wasn’t smart either.
You have to treat yourself now and then, but most of these sad sacks think that needs to be 24/7.
screw them.
Uh, oh.
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