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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re in a government shutdown.\u201d \u201cI am a full-time government worker.\u201d \u201cWe are furloughed. \u201cI work at NASA. I am an engineer there. I do a lot of work that involves quality and safety, so making sure that any hardware is safe and, of course, that our people are being safe. \u201ct was honestly really sad. I love my job. It\u2019s easy to joke about. Well, OK, I have a few days off where I get to be home, but then you get sent home and it doesn\u2019t feel so great.\u201d \u201cWelcome to a day in the life of a furloughed government employee. This is my outfit of the day. This video does not do justice to the view I\u2019m seeing of Denver. The reason why I decided to post the vlogs of what I do while I\u2019m on furlough is to shed a positive light on a time of uncertainty. It\u2019s honestly kind of difficult to shop when you don\u2019t know when your next paycheck is going to come. I\u2019ve also been journaling \u2014 journaling, going to the gym. I\u2019ve been watching like movies from the \u201990s to give myself a little bit of positivity.\u201d \u201cIt can bring a little bit of stress, especially having somebody to feed in a single-parent household since I\u2019m not being paid. And if this extends longer then what I think it will, I\u2019m definitely going to lean into some resources, into my savings.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve been working with Bo and \u2014\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re just looking for creative opportunities to still meet those needs, but have less financial cost. So I am bartering a haircut with a neighbor. I recently found out that they have a background in cosmetology and offer the skill.\u201d \u201cFor a lot of us that really enjoy our jobs and that find fulfillment in it, it is a big gut blow to not be able to do what we want to do, to not feel productive. Even if we are retroactively paid, we\u2019re not getting paid right now. That doesn\u2019t mean that our mortgage gets paid or that our groceries get paid. So it\u2019s still a stressful time for us.\u201d<\/p>\n After hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed during the government shutdown, some took to social media to document their lives and show how they are coping. Without knowing how long the shutdown will last, some workers are concerned about how they will sustain themselves in the meantime.<\/span><\/p>\n By Ang Li<\/p>\n October 7, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Federal Workers Express Uncertainty During Government Shutdown transcript Back transcript Federal Workers Express Uncertainty During Government Shutdown After hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed during the government shutdown, some took to social media to document their lives and show how they are coping. Without knowing how long the shutdown will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7640,319,558,11209,3785,1438],"class_list":{"0":"post-26532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-express","9":"tag-federal","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-shutdown","12":"tag-uncertainty","13":"tag-workers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Federal Workers Express Uncertainty During Government Shutdown<\/h2>\n
After hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed during the government shutdown, some took to social media to document their lives and show how they are coping. Without knowing how long the shutdown will last, some workers are concerned about how they will sustain themselves in the meantime.<\/h4>\n