Political Quotes

“Mr. President, every single day, millions of hard- working Americans report to work to serve their communities and their country. They are known to our government as civil servants, but I want to be clear about who they really are. These civil servants are the more than 300 air traffic controllers at the Albuquerque Sunport and airports across New Mexico who keep us safe in the air. They are the wildland firefighters battling catastrophic forest fires each year. They are the FBI agents who are working to get drug cartels out of our communities. They are the rangers taking care of our national parks and the civil engineers who manage and restore our watersheds. They are the Federal customs officers and border agents who enable trade at our southern border and stop fentanyl before it enters our country. They are the inspectors and scientists who ensure the safety of our food and our medicine, and they are the countless workers who ensure our elders receive their Social Security checks on time. These are the unsung heroes in our Federal civil service. The impact of their work touches every single person in our State and our country. They deserve our respect and our gratitude, not an all-out attack against them. But while these civil servants have done the quiet work of keeping our government working, Donald Trump is singlehandedly forcing a partial government shutdown and throwing the lives of hard- working civil servants into chaos.…”