ST. PAUL — Union leaders told senators on Thursday, Oct. 30, that Minnesota’s federal workers are now missing rent and are taking home boxes of food at the end of their shifts.

The sobering testimony on Thursday comes as the federal government shutdown nears a month. It was the latest meeting of the Senate’s Subcommittee on Federal Impacts.

Mark Johnson, of Duluth, representing TSA agents with the American Federation of Government Employees, said roughly 1,000 of Minnesota’s 18,000 federal employees are TSA agents.

“I’ve got officers that have come to me that say my rent is due on Nov. 1. I don’t have the funds for that. My landlord is unwilling to work with me. And, ‘Oh, by the way, they told me there was going to be a $50 per day late fee.’ How do people sustain that when you are … pa

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