Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español.

Linda Ward-Smith, the AFL-CIO vice president for federal workers in Nevada, said the immediate impact of the government shutdown on the state’s 22,000 federal employees remained uncertain.

The number of Nevada workers who will go without paychecks is still a mystery, she said.

But she hasn’t forgotten how working-class families suffered during the last shutdown — when the federal government came to a halt for 35 days from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019.

“We had people in food banks utilizing resources because they didn’t have a paycheck. We’re hoping that this doesn’t happen this time, because that does drain our economy,” she said Wednesday. “We’re already faced with nobody coming to Las Vegas.”

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