The government shutdown is now in its tenth day. Thousands of furloughed federal employees sit at home as their offices remain locked up and dark. One of those agencies is the IRS.

Elizabeth McPeak, the first vice president of the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 34, says the situation is hurting the rank and file as well as American taxpayers.

"There's nobody there to help you right now if you have to go to a walk-in office," McPeak said.

"We are asking Congress to do its job so we can do our job," McPeak added.

She says the way this shutdown has been implemented leaves a lot to be desired.

"This has been mass chaos," she said.

McPeak says roughly 600 federal workers represented by the union have been furloughed.

"This is the most demoralizing shutdown in my 20-year c

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