End of shutdown: workers left with debts, bad credit and shattered trust

The blase attitude of Trump administration officials is a world away from the experience of federal employees – who fear a repeat in three weeks’ time

Even as he announced an end to the longest government shutdown in US history, Donald Trump warned that a new shutdown could begin in just three weeks “if we don’t get a fair deal from Congress”.

That threat meant that clouds of uncertainty still remain in place for hundreds of thousands of government workers and unknown others whose lives were interrupted or derailed by a shutdown precipitated and prolonged by the president’s demand for a border wall, which he redoubled on Friday.

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