What can federal workers do about the government shutdown?

Besides painting their landlord's house, of course

President Trump.
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If the government shutdown lasts through Sunday, it will be the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Among other things, that means hundreds of thousands of federal government employees will never have had to go this long without pay.

Most of the affected workers are taking it in stride so far. But cracks and signs of stress are already showing up. How long until they finally decide that enough is enough? And what happens when they do?

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.