While the congressional impeachment proceedings commanded center stage in the nation’s capital, a vast majority of Federal workers are anxiously bracing for another government shutdown that could come if Congress and the Trump Administration fail to agree on several appropriations bills by Dec. 20.
In an online survey of 6,200 Federal employees conducted by the National Treasury Employees Union, four out of five, or 81.7 percent, were already cutting back on their holiday spending and “growing increasingly anxious about their families’ financial well-being,” according to the NTEU.
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