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President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Jan 25, 2019, in Washington.
Monday, Jan. 28, 2019 | 2 a.m.
Nevada has seen 250 federal workers in the state sign up for food stamps since the partial shutdown of the U.S. government began just before Christmas.
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers missed two paychecks during the shutdown, which ended Friday when President Donald Trump and Congress announced a deal to reopen the government for three weeks.
Julie Balderson, the social services program specialist at Nevada's Division of Welfare and Supportive Services, said that in addition to workers signing up for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, 10 workers signed up for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, also known as welfare.
Balderson says most of the Nevada workers who signed up for benefits are Transportation Security Administration workers. Others work for Homeland Security, the IRS, the Interior Department and a federal prison worker.
