Illinois federal workers heavily stressed as government shutdown yanks paychecks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : " Federal workers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been increasingly visible in the Chicago area as the Trump administration ramps up raids, patrols and detentions, were on the job at a suburban Broadview facility Wednesday.
48% : Employees with the Environmental Protection Agency received an email Tuesday night saying employees were exempted from the shutdown because there was available funding to continue, but other details were unclear and the communication was "haphazard," according to Loreen Targos, executive vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 704, the union that represents 1,000 EPA workers in the Great Lakes region.
44% : " Targos echoed that, saying some people who have left the job due to previous shutdowns or the threat of further cuts through the Department of Government Efficiency this year aren't able to pass their historical knowledge on to other employees still at the agency.
19% : " The second Trump presidency has come with mounting uncertainty for federal workers as the DOGE has made sweeping job cuts across government entities.

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