A food pantry is established for workers who are going without pay during the government shutdown at Salt Lake International Airport in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
When the last government shutdown happened at the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019, the Salt Lake City Airport was at its old location and less prepared to help out the federal workers who still had to show up for their shifts without a paycheck.
That’s a situation that airport administrators said they promised to handle better. Thursday morning, after an appropriations approval from the Salt Lake City Council, one step of that goal was materialized with a pantry dedicated to federal staff, including agents in the Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Protection lines…