He said he has experienced a roller coaster of emotions during the 35 days after the shutdown. "We were following the news every day, trying to figure out basically what is going to happen, when can we return to work, trying to get help so I can keep my family safe." He said the shutdown has been very "stressful."
Dan McCabe, senior director of institutional partnerships at the Capital Area Food Bank, told Xinhua his team was "relieved" that the turnout has been lower following the end of the shutdown, "but we will be out here until workers get their next paycheck and that hasn't happened yet."
As of Saturday, the six markets in the capital region had served over 4,500 federal employees and contractors over the past few weeks, McCabe said.
Another federal employee who also preferred to remain anonymous told Xinhua that she still needs free food because her family couldn't make their monthly payment. "We were putting everything on credit cards. We have no cash to pay for anything," she said.
She said she found it difficult to explain the situation to her 14-year-old son when he asked her "Are we poor now? Do we not have any money?" "And I just tell him we're temporarily poor."
She said it's hard to say who should be blamed for the impasse. "They're all crazy. They (politicians) all want their own agendas, and then we have to be at the expense of them."
Having been working for the federal government for 10 years, she said she has experienced a few government shutdowns before, but "they've been small." This time, she is not sure whether the government will stay open. "Anxiety, uncertainty. So we'll just have to wait and see," she said.
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