Coast Guard and other DHS workers still not being paid ask, 'What about us?'

It was good news, but not for them

It was good news, but not for them.

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As word spread through the federal bureaucracy Monday that Transportation Security Administration workers were getting some back pay, a collective gloom descended on a Coast Guard administrative office, a Coast Guard worker, who asked not to be identified told NBC News.

Like the TSA agents who man security checkpoints at airports across the U.S., thousands of civilian Coast Guard workers have also been working without pay during the more than a monthlong partial government shutdown.