Originally Posted by
petaluma1
The 75,000 number includes not only TSA but IRS, federal prison employees, anyone who is being forced to work without pay, which some sources are saying is as high as 400,000+.
I've seen numbers as high as 800,000.
Everything you need to know about the government shutdown
How many federal employees have been affected?
Of the about 800,000 employees in the nine Cabinet departments and various smaller agencies whose funding has lapsed, about 380,000 initially were furloughed without pay with the rest still working without pay.