A dad of 3 felt forced to quit his job at TSA as the partial shutdown continues: "My family has to come first"
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A father of three felt that he had no other choice but to quit his job as a Transportation Security Administration officer and find other work as the partial government shutdown goes on. In:
A father of three felt that he had no other choice but to quit his job as a Transportation Security Administration officer and find other work as the partial government shutdown goes on.
Robert Echeverria worked the TSA checkpoints at Salt Lake City International Airport for nine years.
"I love the agency. I love the people that I worked with," he said. "But it just, my family has to come first."
With no paycheck or end in sight to the latest shutdown, which has so far lasted nearly a month, Echeverria made what he said was a difficult decision to quit. He's among the more than 300 TSA officers who have quit since the shutdown began, according to agency statistics obtained by CBS News.
"I think the hardest thing is seeing the struggle that my wife was going through and not trying to bring more stress to her," Echeverria said. "But seeing her cry every night, how am I going to feed my family? How am I going to survive?"
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