KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - More than 6,000 workers at Kansas City’s regional IRS service center face a critical juncture as the government shutdown enters its sixth day and initial funding runs out.

The federal government is the largest employer in Kansas City, with 34,000 federal workers. The IRS employs 7,200 people in the metro area, with 6,000 working in the Kansas City service center — one of just three such facilities nationwide --- according to Shannon Ellis, president of NTEU Chapter 66, which represents employees at the Kansas City Service Center.

Funding approved in 2022 allowed IRS staff to continue working for the first five days of the shutdown, but that emergency funding expires Tuesday.

For workers who lived through the last government shutdown in 2018-19 — which lasted 35

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