Jeff Suchman doesn’t know when he’ll get his next government paycheck.
“Last Friday was payday,” Suchman said. “And we got three fourths of a paycheck. Up through the 1st, and then that’s it.”
Suchman works for the Department of Labor in Kansas City, and is the president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1748. He’s been furloughed, like around 80% of his colleagues, he says, since October 1. That’s when the government shut down because Congress failed to pass a bill re-funding it…