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‘I Don’t Know How I’m Going to Feed My Kids’: Shutdown Hits Federal Contractors Hard | News Channel 3-12

Over 500,000 federal contractors risk losing income without guaranteed backpay during the shutdown, with unions highlighting disproportionate effects on women and people of color.

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By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Audrey Murray is losing sleep over the government shutdown that could soon derail her paychecks. Murray, 65, has worked as a cleaner at the Smithsonian Museum of American History for nearly three decades. Now she is among the hundreds of thousands of federal government contractors whose livelihoods are being threatened by the political dysfunction in Washington, DC. “It’s so sad that they think they can play wi…

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‘I don’t know how I’m going to feed my kids’: Shutdown hits federal contractors hard

Unlike federal employees, contractors typically don’t receive backpay when the government reopens from a shutdown. Low-wage service workers, including cleaners, janitors, security guards, cafeteria workers and other staffers who keep buildings operating, are often out of luck.

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CNN broke the news in Atlanta, United States on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.
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