Here's who was working with no pay through the shutdown

Many of these approximately 450,000 federal employees were forced to pull from savings or find other ways to stretch their dollars as the shutdown stretched on for 35 days. Now, they must still wait for their back pay to arrive and wait to see the extended effects of those missed paychecks.

Despite the battle on Capitol Hill, federal employees nationwide continued to do their jobs. Here are some of the stories of those who had to work during the longest government shutdown in US history:

Department of Homeland Security

Transportation Security Administration

Coast Guard

Border Patrol

Citizenship and Immigration Services

• Nearly 300 furloughed Department of Homeland Security employees from the E-Verify division of US Citizenship and Immigration Services were called back to work, but they were assigned to other jobs that didn't have funding. These people were assigned to jobs that were funded by fees.
• "Nearly 90 percent of DHS employees are currently working on essential national security projects and programs without a paycheck," DHS spokesman Tyler Houlton told CNN in a statement. "There is no question that unpaid DHS employees and their families are facing financial constraints and sacrificing greatly."

Department of Justice

• FBI agents were working without pay as of Jan. 11. The FBI Agents Association said the shutdown would hamper recruiting efforts.
• A number of anonymous FBI officials sounded off on the impact the financial insecurity caused by the shutdown was having on the lives of the law enforcement agents. "I have heard from some of the younger employees. If this shutdown is a prolonged matter, they said they would find work elsewhere," one official told the agents association.

Secret Service

Department of Transportation

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Prisons

State Department

• The State Department ordered its staff back to work this week, noting in its statement that it was "deeply concerned about growing financial hardship and uncertainty affecting Department employees whose salaries and well being are affected by the unprecedented length of the lapse."

Treasury Department

Internal Revenue Service

• The IRS officially ordered tens of thousands of employees back to work without pay and process tax returns.
• At least 14,000 furloughed IRS employees called back to work by the Treasury Department didn't show up, according to two congressional aides briefed on the matter. Of those, 5,000 cited hardships, and 9,000 couldn't be reached.

Health and Human Services

Food and Drug Administration

• FDA food inspectors came back to work last week without pay to carry on food inspections that had been dormant since Dec. 22, according to NBC News.

Department of the Interior

National Park Service

• Park Rangers went back to work without pay to keep National Parks from being overrun with waste and vandalized, the Pasadena Star-News reported.

CNN's Rene Marsh, Greg Wallace, Nicole Chavez, Augusta Anthony, Veronica Stracqualursi, Catherine E. Shoichet, Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, Nick Valencia, David Shortell, Elizabeth Landers, Jessica Schneider, Kate Sullivan, Ellie Kaufman, Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Donna Borak, Lauren Fox and Doug Criss contributed to this report.

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