Stop holding people hostage, furloughed NOAA worker pleads

EVERETT. WA — Anna Kagley thinks her family has enough savings to get through January. And they could make it to the end of February by putting the mortgage and car payments on credit cards.

“When those bills come, I don’t know what I am going to do,” Kagley said.

She is among the 800,000 federal workers not being paid as the partial government shutdown stretches to nearly a month — the longest in American history — with no end in sight. The Everett resident, who provides the sole paycheck for her family, was furloughed in December and missed her first paycheck earlier this month.

“It would be better if there was an end date. Then I could adjust my finances. The unknown is so hard,” Kagley said. “I’m afraid to spend any money on anything.”

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