Federal Workers Are Already Feeling the Pain of the Shutdown

(Time) Julie Burr will receive her last paycheck from the federal government on Dec. 31. After that shes doesnt know when the next one is coming. So while she waits for President Donald Trumps standoff with Congress over funding for a border wall to come to an end the single mother has taken on extra shifts at Barnes and Noble. Its not going to pay all my bills but it will help put food on the table" Burr 49 tells TIME. Burr who lives in Kansas City Missouri and is currently furloughed from her position as an employee for a private company working with the Department of Transportation says she has enough savings to last a couple of weeks without pay from her job. But with no end in sight to the shutdown which went into place at midnight Friday her worries are growing. After about two weeks its going to really hurt my pocketbook" says Burr. I wasnt prepared for a long shutdown."