I think if missing one paycheck causes you to have to go to food banks and ask for financial assistance, you have a bigger problem than a temporary delay of receiving your pay.
Some feds who are not living paycheck to paycheck probably left the cold winter weather and waited out the shut down in some warm and sunny place. Basically a paid vacation. Every year if this keeps up.
While the media raves on about the latest caravan in exploiting the slowdown conflict, they miss the irony of how people who make a dollar a day can save $5,000 to pay a coyote to bring them to America while career government workers are unable to feed themselves within a week of missing a paycheck that is still guaranteed.
Maybe these hopeful immigrants do have something valuable to offer.
They need a lesson in balancing their checkbooks, household budgetting and living within their means. They bring home more than many.
Not one missing paycheck and they were whining their kids didn’t have any Christmas presents. Not one missing paycheck and they were starving. Last paycheck on Dec. 28 and 3 days later they were being kicked out by their landlords. Fake, fake, fake news and flat out lies.