Government shutdown stretches into workweek, sows confusion

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government shutdown has effectively cleaved the federal workforce in half, sowing confusion and frustration among hundreds of thousands of affected workers, including some who reported to work Monday only to turn right back around.
“I’m on the shelf,” Rusty Payne, a furloughed spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration, told The Associated Press.
The partisan stalemate over the budget forced scores of federal government agencies and outposts to