After nine months of funding cuts, a blitz by the Elon Musk-helmed Department of Government Efficiency, and now a shutdown, things are starting to pile up for the government workers who call Greater Boston home.

“People are on edge,” Lilly Simmons, the president of AFGE local 3428, which represents workers at the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection across the region, said Friday.

“They’re trying to show up every day ... as their best selves,” she continued, but “people have anxiety.”

Simmons was among the union leaders, health care providers and others who shared their stories at a roundtable hosted by U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-7th District, at the Boston headquarters of the health care union SEIU 32BJ.

Simmons and her colleagues told Pressley that they’ve spent months weath

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