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First-person: Furloughed federal employee in Denver: “I feel expendable this time.”

Joanne Grady, 49, is one of the 380,000 federal workers furloughed by the longest ongoing partial government shutdown in U.S. history. (Another 420,000 are working...

Perlmutter blasts House for passing bill to cut 800,000 federal jobs

Congressman Ed Perlmutter today issued a scathing statement criticizing the House of Representatives for passing a spending bill that could put nearly a million federal employees out of work.