“We live paycheck to paycheck, tons of anxiety. Just struggle and figure it out every day,” said Lori Wilcox, IRS customer service representative from Hooper.[gallery_inline ids="1192952"]

“I just want to go back to work to do my job, let us do our job. We don’t do this just for a paycheck. We love what we do.” Daniel Lickey, a tax examiner for the IRS, has bipolar disorder and is worried he won't be able to pay to fill his prescription. “I know when I run out, I won’t ...

“I think people are really going to start getting angry and upset when they can’t pay their bills,” Krystle Kirkpatrick (top right), a furloughed IRS worker who’s mulling a temporary job pending an end to the shutdown to make sure she’s able to pay next month’s mortgage. She ...

Marae Persson of Layton, a purchaser for the Transportation Security Administration, is on furlough. So is her son, also a TSA worker, and a son-in-law, who works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She's managing, Persson said, but others in her family "are having to rely on other family ...

“The shutdown is hurting you, it is hurting me and it is hurting our communities. We need Congress and the (Trump) administration to take us out of the political game. ... We don’t want to be a bargaining chip for Congress or the administration,” said Shelly Carver, an IRS employee and ...

"You kind of have to prioritize. We eat a lot of ramen noodles and macaroni and cheese. You do what you have to do because we don’t know how long this is going to last," said Shelby Harris, IRS customer service representative from Roy. She was with her daughter, Anyssa Hernandez, 14. "I ...