Randy Krehbiel

Tulsa World Reporter

For most Oklahomans, as for most other Americans, the first-day effects of the first federal government shutdown since 2019 seemed more rhetorical than operational.

While Oklahoma's all-Republican congressional delegation lambasted Democrats through social media and news outlets, and an unusually feisty Oklahoma Democratic Party fought back with an "emergency town hall" just outside the state's largest federal installation, the immediate and potentially longer-term implications of the spending authorization deadlock remained mostly unclear.

Oklahoma has about 52,000 civilian federal employees. The majority work in the Oklahoma City metro, mostly at Tinker Air Force Base but also the Federal Aviation Administration's Monroney Center, the National Weat

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