Sad reality of the shutdown

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Would Trump Shutdown Gov’t Again? Chief Of Staff Says ‘Um, Yeah

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...0%28TPMNews%29

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"Trump walked away from Friday’s Rose Garden address “humiliated.”

“I think that the major loss for the president this week was that

the fraud and the con of Donald Trump,

that he is the master negotiator,

that he’s the king of the art of the deal.

that he always wins when he sits down at the bargaining table

was finally shattered” Wilson began.
“This is a guy who spent–

who threw our government and economy into chaos for 35 days and

who insists, absolutely categorically that under no cir stances would he stop this shutdown unless he got $5.7 billion for his wall,”

he continued.

“He walked out of the room with nothing,

he didn’t even have his pants.

At the end of this negotiation,

he had been humiliated and been shamed.

“He was knocked down hard

he got spanked hard by Nancy Pelosi and

it still hurts so much he can barely sit down,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/ric...e+Raw+Story%29

[Pavlov]

"Trump walked away from Friday’s Rose Garden address “humiliated.”

“I think that the major loss for the president this week was that

the fraud and the con of Donald Trump,

that he is the master negotiator,

that he’s the king of the art of the deal.

that he always wins when he sits down at the bargaining table

was finally shattered” Wilson began.

“This is a guy who spent–

who threw our government and economy into chaos for 35 days and

who insists, absolutely categorically that under no cir stances would he stop this shutdown unless he got $5.7 billion for his wall,” he continued.

“He walked out of the room with nothing, he didn’t even have his pants. At the end of this negotiation, he had been humiliated and been shamed.

“He was knocked down hard

he got spanked hard by Nancy Pelosi and

it still hurts so much he can barely sit down,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/ric...e+Raw+Story%29

Pelosi:

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‘All for nothing’: Trump’s wall retreat bewilders allies

Before the president was done talking on Friday, a group text chain with several former Trump aides lit up with complaints.

Speaker Nancy "Pelosi ordered everything off the menu and left Trump hanging with the bill,” one Trump ally texted to the group.

“President Nancy Pelosi, she runs the country now,” said a former White House official.

“We went from indefinite shutdown, to down payment, to cave — all within a span of 24 hours.”

Trump’s core supporters and former aides are “furious” and “melting down.”

some of his most loyal supporters fretted that Trump was in danger of losing his fervent base that has fueled his presidency.

Trump also defended himself late Friday on Twitter.

"I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall.

This was in no way a concession.

It was taking care of millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the Shutdown with the understanding that

in 21 days, if no deal is done, it’s off to the races!" he wrote.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...r-wall-1128564

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U.S. government agencies gear up to restart operations Monday

Federal workers are owed about $6 billion in back pay,

It will take agencies days to dig out from weeks of unread emails and deal with other logistical issues like expired email passwords or ID badges, agency officials said. Furloughed workers were told not to read emails or answer phone calls while off duty.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...2F+Top+News%29

Trash S on the country, got nothing for it, and America now has to clean up his

No way this asshole wins in 2020, even he makes it that far.

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Trump Scoffs at Ann Coulter:

‘Maybe I Didn’t Return Her Phone Call or Something’


https://www.mediaite.com/online/trum...-or-something/

[Trill Clinton]

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CBO Finds the Economy Lost About $11 Billion During Trump Shutdown


https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01...iticus+USA+%29

[FrostKing]

Ill explain

1)People were questioning immigration policy after attacks by whites in Boston marathon

2)When white immigrants or 1st generation commit crime this is highlighted. But other whites in America are glossed over as "permanent residents". When blacks commit crime do people question African immigration? No because these are people with little or no connection to their heritage

C)People are especially bewildered when an immigrant would leave his homeland and then commit crime to rott in American prison

[Trill Clinton]

I read somewhere that illegals are illegaly sneaking across the border en mass like trump says. The problem is them coming on work visas and staying longer and employers hiring illegal workers. Thoughts?

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Diapers, Tampons, Nursing Bras: The Trump Shutdown’s Unseen Costs for Working Families

missing just one paycheck can put diapers, nursing supplies, and menstrual products out of reach.

normally provides “diapers, period products, formula, breastfeeding supplies, adult incontinence supplies, and other hygiene products” to social service organizations that then distribute them to those in need.

But during the government shutdown, there was “a massive increase in need,” Cannon said.

“We had an increase in requests for individuals,

an increase in requests from organizations—

we saw a lot of folks who we’ve never talked to about diaper needs before coming [to us].”

For many federal workers and contractors affected by the shutdown,

the loss of even one paycheck left them unable to afford food, rent, medical services, and personal hygiene necessities.

“a lot of people who are affected by the government shutdown that are living paycheck to paycheck that are

coming to us asking for a package or two of maxi pads or tampons,”

said Marlowe, “just to get them by until when they get their paycheck again.”

the requests weren’t just from those in the D.C. area.

They came from California, Florida, Texas, Maryland, Virginia, Alaska, Georgia, and North Carolina,

https://rewire.news/article/2019/01/...king-families/

Will the Repugs vote the Dem bill to give back pay to contractors? I'm betting yes.

Capitalism keeps Labor living in fear, in precarity, on the edge, to obtain obedience, cooperation, to stifle dissent.

MfA would promote mobility of Labor, since quitting a job wouldn't mean losing health care.

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Just before 7:30 a.m. Monday, NASA employee Darryl Lomax returned to his office in Greenbelt, Md. to carry out business as usual. It was just a week ago that Lomax applied for unemployment benefits to help his family survive the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. On that day, the 53-year-old spent the afternoon at a community event geared toward connecting furloughed workers of color with critical health and social services.

Now, Lomax admits he had to psych himself up to report to work at the place he’s been employed for the last decade.

“I was saying, ‘Ok I’m ready to go back,’ but mentally and physically, I’m worn down,” Lomax said.

The five-week partial government shutdown took a damaging toll on his personal life. After Lomax became furloughed in late December, the Bowie, Md. resident fell behind on child support payments to support his 17-year-old son. Bills piled up, his vehicle broke down and his eight-year marriage came to a sudden end.

“I felt like I needed a vacation, because the stress level was so high,” said Lomax.

As for the unemployment application, Lomax said he’ll allow the 21-day processing period to continue to run its course. That’s in large part because the deal President Donald Trump signed to reopen the government applies only to the next three weeks.

“So I have to find out if that’s going to affect the [unemployment] process,” Lomax said. “Do I have to start all over again and wait for another 21 days?”

As the hours wind down on his first day back to work, Lomax holds on to one glimmer of hope: he should receive his backpay by Friday.

‘That’s When The Stress Builds Up All Over Again’
The road ahead remains uncertain for Lomax and about 800,000 federal employees across the country who went without paychecks during the shutdown.

Workers missed a second paycheck last week. Many of those employees were considered “essential” and worked without pay, but all will be paid in full for the shutdown’s duration. Many contractors with the federal government are not expecting backpay.

Lomax said the paychecks this week are crucial, because workers might find themselves cut off again next month.

“The thought of three weeks hanging over us,” Lomax said. “That’s when the stress builds up all over again.”

Until a long term funding bill is passed, Lomax, a human resources specialist, plans to focus on getting his department back up and running to full capacity. That includes triggering the process to onboard new NASA hires, who were supposed to start work during the first week of the shutdown. Lomax is contemplating when their first day of work should be.

“We might even try to see if we can get them in sometime this week,” Lomax said. “But with so much going on, who knows.”

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Lord of the Flies takes over the National Parks

Piles of poop, toilet paper 'flowers' greet rangers as parks reopen after government shutdown




In Death Valley, piles of human feces and hunks of what rangers call “toilet paper flowers” were left scattered around the desert.


At Joshua Tree, officials found about 24 miles of unauthorized new trails carved into the desert landscape by off-road vehicles, along with some of the park’s namesake trees toppled.


And at Point Reyes along the Marin County coast, a colony of elephant seals made a popular beach their new home and welcomed 40 new pups into the world.

authorities are beginning the tally to damage that occurred to some of California’s national parklands during the weeks in which many park officials were off the job.

park officials said the damage to the parks was scattered but not widespread. The cleanups are underway, and that includes removing vandalism and fixing up trashed facilities.

“While there was a certain segment of the population like that, the majority of visitors love this area and love the park and behaved themselves. This is not a virtual wasteland.”

Some of the most concerning losses involved three Joshua trees that were cut down or damaged and two mature juniper trees were cut for firewood along with dozens of cat claw acacia trees,

Joshua Tree — which was on track to have more than 3 million visitors in 2018 — also missed out on roughly $1.03 million in entrance fees,

estimated it could take centuries for the park’s namesake trees and other sensitive vegetation to recover from damage inflicted during the shutdown.

Some trees appear to have been chopped down, but Land said rangers don’t know how many were harmed or how the destruction was caused.



off-road drivers cut destructive scars in the desert floor’s delicate biological soil crust.

So much human waste piled up in Yosemite National Park from visitors using the side of the road as a toilet during the shutdown that officials closed two campgrounds and a popular redwood grove, citing public safety concerns.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...s=mcnewsletter

Thanks, Trash, The Best President Ever.

And very probably the park vandals were mostly Trash voters.

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It could take years for these workers to recover from America’s record-breaking government shutdown

Contract workers are among the lowest paid federal employees. Most won't be getting back pay when the government shutdown ends.

long after government paychecks start being reissued, thousands of contract workers across the United States will continue to struggle to regain a solid financial footing — and may be unable to do so for years.

Contract workers, including security guards, food service workers, and janitors working at federal facilities, often earn barely enough to get by. They are uniquely vulnerable to losing even one day’s pay,

contract workers are technically employees of middleman companies that placed a winning low bid to provide these services to the federal government.

“Our members are predominantly, if not exclusively, African American and Latino.

They don’t necessarily have health care benefits or pension benefits and most of them have multiple jobs,” Karant told ThinkProgress.

“They are part and full time. Sometimes even the full time workers have to work a second job.”

“Thanks to good union contracts they don’t make poverty wages, (but) they make a wage that is just enough to get by,”

Some contract workers are making ends meet with assistance from food pantries and church donations.

When they do miss a single paycheck it makes all the difference in the world…. It does mean they’re going to have to choose between prescription drugs and food and getting electricity shut off,”

Many workers who are directly paid by the government missed a paycheck for the first time on Friday — or they received one with zeroes where a dollar amount should have been.

https://thinkprogress.org/it-could-t...-49cafcda22f8/

Did Trash and his ethnic cleansers give a tiniest about the WORKING people they would be crushing with their goddamned shutdown?

Note the SEIU contract prevented its enough-to-get-by members getting totally crushed, giving them some shield from the oligarchy.

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There are plenty of government workers still waiting for their back pay

People working for a variety of agencies

either have not yet been paid,

or they've just received a small portion of what they are owed.

Doug Church of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said people who worked during the shutdown have not received their overtime pay, which violates the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Donna Zelina's husband works for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in South Dakota, and she told APhe's been given only part of his back pay, and doesn't expect to be fully paid for another week.

Her creditors wouldn't work with her during the shutdown, she said, adding,

Contract workers were hit hard by the shutdown, as they are not en led to back pay.

his group has helped find government contract jobs for about 2,000 people with disabilities.

Many worked as custodians and in mail rooms, and had a difficult time finding jobs in the first place.

Kelly said that as of Wednesday, close to 60 percent still have not been called back to work.

The Census Bureau told AP that about 850 employees have not received back pay yet,

https://theweek.com/speedreads/82239...iting-back-pay

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Mulvaney: Trump May Declare Border Wall Emergency Even If Congress Approves Funds

Mulvaney also said

“you absolutely cannot” rule out Trump shutting the government down again at the end of the week

if he isn’t satisfied with what Congress approves.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/m...+%28TPMNews%29

bluff? intimidation?

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No more congressional talks scheduled to avert shutdown


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...2F+Top+News%29