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A month's pay and deal with it. >> perhaps it was a shot in the dark for you, you were hoping you would get $5,000 for a go fund me account, come to find out you tripled that. how helpful has that been, you know, how much will you be leaning on that and for how long? >> right. i leaned on it heavily. i paid my rent for february so i can get ahead, in case this keeps going on and i'm not able to find another position right away. i'm thankful to those that donated. i'm very, very grateful for that, and i'm watching other go fund me accounts with contract workers and they're also getting many, ma...

Those furloughed workers hitting up handing out food supporting them through this shutdown. joining us now with more on the impact of folks. christina, good to see you. as always obviously you've got people on an individual level who are hurting. but then you had 800,000 people. that's more than the number of employees at amazon. they are not going to the movies. how long until this begins to affect the economy. you have to account for all of those contract workers. think of the restaurants that may be in the surrounding areas. or even a big company like a delta. commented that they saw a decr...

That's a perfectly good reason for him to want her here. >> some federal employees can't afford food anymore after a paycheck-free month, so today virginia senator mark warner popped up at a food bank to feed the furlough -ed. >> why would you hold the functions of the sea department customer garbage old folks who work at the smithsonian's contract workers why would he old folks with people getting food stamps hostage when the dispute is the software security? i think the actions of this warehouse are disgraceful. >> and have a problem looming in february, super bowl security. democrats are ap...

For 800,000 federal workers, their paychecks are on hold, not to mention the contract workers and the millions of people affected by this shutdown. many of those people are being forced to drain their checking and savings accounts to stay afloat. among them is andrew robinson. he is a military veteran. he is currently working for. usda. and, andrew, you are joining us from missouri, and you are not getting paid. thank you for writing this op-ed and being with us. >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> so you write in the cnn op-ed so clearly laying out this new reality that you're facing. y...

41,000 federal employees. hans, tell us not just what the government workers are telling you there, but local businesses, businesses in a town with that many federal workers and buildings that are closed down, they can't stay open. >> reporter: well, they're seeing their sales decline. that's kind of what you would expect to happen when you have that many furloughed workers here who aren't getting a paycheck. of course, you also have workers say at the t.s.a. who are going in and aren't getting paid, but you have a lot of people here. you mentioned the 41,000. about 15% of that is nasa. you ha...