Capitol Hill Staffers Worry Over Missed Pay, Shutdown Impacts

Capitol Hill staffers are anxiously girding for a possible government shutdown this week that threatens to reduce their offices’ manpower, multiply their workloads and halt their pay.

Government funding will lapse Wednesday morning if lawmakers can’t hammer out a deal to extend funding beyond the end of the fiscal year on Tuesday. A shutdown would lead to scores of federal workers being furloughed and others working without pay if the standoff drags on. And lawmakers’ failure to compromise could have major consequences for their own staffers, many who have never weathered a shutdown on the Hill.

It would be up ...