A 'stopgap' funding bill was approved in Congress Saturday evening, just hours before the midnight deadline to fund the U.S. government for the next 45 days.
SALT LAKE CITY — A "stopgap" funding bill was approved in Congress Saturday evening, just hours before the midnight deadline to fund the U.S. government for the next 45 days.
Ron Johnson represents the American Federation of Government Employees . He also works as a care technician at the Salt Lake Veterans Administration Hospital. "Our fears, and our biggest ones, is the impact it's going to have on our families. Because most everyone I know of works pretty much paycheck to paycheck," he said."Take that paycheck away and people are going to be hurting."
"If my brothers and sisters are not getting a paycheck, why is Congress?" he said."It just doesn't make any sense to me and it hasn't every time we go through this."
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