They took on extra jobs, hit the food banks, begged their families for money, and even sold their blood to pay their bills.
Now, after working without pay for a month, an ever-increasing number of Transportation Security Administration workers have been calling out of work even though they are legally required to continue manning airport security checkpoints.
The result has been long wait times for travelers flying out of airports across the country and overwhelming stress for the TSA workers who are still on the job.
“The burden is kind of being split around everyone,” said a TSA worker in California, who, like most of the federal workers interviewed by NBC News, spoke on the condition that their names not be published. “If someone calls off one day, all the people who show up the next day are like, ‘Yeah, that was tough. I’m gonna tap out.’”
Some 500 TSA workers have quit
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