Federal employees were dealt a one-two punch this year when bickering lawmakers pushed government spending to its limit — and shutdown deadline.
Hoping to remind feds they are not alone in their fear of a shuttered office, the American Federation of Government Employees Local 704 re-released results from a survey done after the 2013 shutdown gauging what concerned feds in their division most over the course of their 2 1/2-week employment gap, and also gave them the chance to anonymously voice their opinions of how their agencies handled the shutdown.