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Stub Zero
Federal workers get $0 pay stubs as shutdown drags on
Government workers and their supporters hold signs during a protest in Boston, Friday, Jan.11, 2019. Associated Press
By BRADY McCOMBS deepening anxieties about mort- on Twitter and vented their frustra- pay stub today, and it’s a combi-
MICHELLE SMITH gage payments and unpaid bills. tion as the standoff over President nation of reality setting in and just
Associated Press All told, an estimated 800,000 gov- Donald Trump’s demand for $5.7 sadness,” air traffic controller Josh
Federal employees received pay ernment workers missed their pay- billion for a border wall entered Maria told The Associated Press
stubs with nothing but zeros on checks for the first time since the its 21st day. This weekend, it will after tweeting a screenshot of his
them Friday as the effects of the shutdown began. Employees post- become the longest shutdown in paystub.
government shutdown hit home, ed pictures of the pay statements U.S. history. “I saw the zeros in my Continued on Page 3
