Donation bins set up at PDX to help federal workers going without pay during shutdown: 'A shame that it has to get to that point'

PORTLAND, Ore. — As the government shutdown continues, federal workers are feeling the pain more and more each day.

For air travel workers, the Port of Portland wants to ease the pain in some way.

Two donation bins are set up in the airport for people to donate to the impacted workers.

Air traffic controllers and TSA agents have now gone nearly a month without pay.

“I can't even imagine,” Portlander Jeff Bryan said. “Most people I think in this country are only a paycheck or two away from being homeless themselves, and then, here’s people going through a month without pay and still showing up to work. That is a level of dedication and fidelity that you just can't expect, really.”

"I said, ‘We should have brought a card for them; I wonder how we could do that,’ and she told me, ‘Put