ATLANTA — The federal government is closed for a third day. With national park visitor centers locked and hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed, Republicans and Democrats say voters should hold the other side responsible for the fallout.

But in Georgia, some are focused less on who's to blame than how long the shutdown will last.

The last shutdown dragged on for 35 days from Dec. 2018 to Jan. 2019. Among the hardest hit were Transportation Security Administration employees at Atlanta's humungous airport who had to keep working without pay.

"We did mass distributions of food and there were hundreds of cars in line of people who needed help," said Atlanta Community Food Bank president Kyle Waide.

He said it is not clear yet if his organization will be seeing a small uptic

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