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For Daniel Scharpenburg and thousands of his colleagues at the Internal Revenue Service, the hardest part of the prolonged federal government shutdown isn’t just the missing paycheck. It’s not knowing when their lives – and their work – will start again.
“All week, and all last week, like people have been just panicking,” Scharpenburg said. “When I was leaving [last week], I saw people crying because they just they don’t know what’s going to happen. And the uncertainty is the hardest part.”
Shutdown Feels Like ‘Abusive Relationship’ to Kansas City IRS Employees
In Kansas City, more than 34,000 employees work for the federal government…