Darlene Castillo, a technician for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is among 1.4 million federal workers nationwide living without a paycheck due to the government shutdown.

On Tuesday, she was in an unlikely place: Waiting in a food distribution line in Dania Beach run by Feeding South Florida, specifically to help federal workers. She was among dozens of federal workers collecting food items to feed herself and family — and hoping the federal government reopens soon.

“We don’t want to be out here collecting food donations or borrowing money because we all work hard and we’re all required to go to work every day, but we’re not getting that paycheck,” said Castillo, who has been a federal government employee for four years.

“We don’t have the money,” said Castillo. “We have what

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