The government shutdown is poised to impose financial pain upon many of them, and could force workers to dip into savings, run up credit card debt, cut back expenses and worry about taking more dire measures if the impasse remains unresolved, according to interviews with two furloughed workers and labor experts.

Several nonprofits and state and local governments are offering assistance to civil servants due to the lapse in federal funding.

Employees say their out-of-office messages were changed without their consent to include language blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

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The federal government shutdown furloughs 750,000 employees who will receive backpay under a 2019 law, costing $400 million per day, according to Sen. Joni Ernst's office.

Federal agencies gave shifting and mixed guidance to their work forces about who should come to work and who shouldn’t, but the initial effect on services appeared scattered and limited.

The emails resemble messages that have appeared on several agency webpages amid the shutdown and blame Democratic senators for Congress’ failure to agree to extend funding at the start of the fiscal year.