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2,000 transportation workers are idled over budget impasse

WASHINGTON — Two thousand federal transportation workers were sent home Monday and jobless benefits suddenly ended for some laid-off workers in a spending dispute tinged with election-year politics.

Democrats seized on the impasse to portray Republicans as obstructionists willing to block....

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