{"id":516,"date":"2025-10-03T19:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/crer\/?p=516"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:43:16","slug":"10-3-25-federal-workers-brace-for-impact-as-government-shutdown-enters-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/crer\/2025\/10\/03\/10-3-25-federal-workers-brace-for-impact-as-government-shutdown-enters-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/3\/25: Federal Workers Brace for Impact as Government Shutdown Enters Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/crer\/files\/2025\/10\/US-Capitol-place-meeting-Congress-Washington-DC-1024x695.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517\" style=\"width:305px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/crer\/files\/2025\/10\/US-Capitol-place-meeting-Congress-Washington-DC-1024x695.webp 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/crer\/files\/2025\/10\/US-Capitol-place-meeting-Congress-Washington-DC-768x521.webp 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/crer\/files\/2025\/10\/US-Capitol-place-meeting-Congress-Washington-DC-580x394.webp 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/crer\/files\/2025\/10\/US-Capitol-place-meeting-Congress-Washington-DC-610x414.webp 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/crer\/files\/2025\/10\/US-Capitol-place-meeting-Congress-Washington-DC.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>News Channel 9 continued its coverage of the local impact of the Federal government shutdown. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/gary-w-rollins-college-of-business\/crer\/people#HowardJWallDirectorandChiefEconomist\">CRER director and chief economist Howard Wall<\/a> provided his views on who will be affected most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s probably the federal employees that are the ones who who bear the brunt of the economic effects.&#8221;<\/em><br><em>&#8220;They&#8217;re not being paid, so some of them actually still work, but they&#8217;re not being paid until this impasse is over and others are sent home and not being paid.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wall says what could see a change are the payouts of federal grants.<br>&#8220;Those offices are shut down because they&#8217;re a lower priority than, say, Social Security and veterans benefits.&#8221;<br>Wall says that these government shutdowns usually don&#8217;t last long enough to see an effect just mostly an nuisance.<br>&#8220;They are certainly an inconvenience to a lot of people, particularly the federal employees, who don&#8217;t get get paid, but they end up getting paid in the end, for the you know, their back pay.&#8221;<br>Wall also told us that even though the TVA is federal, those at TVA will not be affected by this shutdown as they are not funded by the federal budget.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newschannel9.com\/news\/local\/federal-workers-in-chattanooga-brace-for-impact-as-government-shutdown-enters-day-3#\">Watch the story here<\/a>.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Channel 9 continued its coverage of the local impact of the Federal government shutdown. 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