CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- Louie Rivers III is one of the tens of thousands of federal workers who have been impacted by the wave of cuts across federal agencies this year.

Rivers was a senior social science advisor in the Office of Research and Development in the Environmental Protection Agency before he was laid off.

"All the funding had been stopped and almost everything we were doing was stopped," Rivers said. "It was extremely stressful."

Now, he's a professor at NC State and running for the Chapel Hill Town Council. But as the government shutdown looms, he said he's concerned about the uncertainty for federal workers here in the Triangle.

If government funding legislation isn't passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday night , many government offices

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