Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yesterday I left my home in Cleveland and kissed my wife good-bye and headed to the airport early in the morning. I went to gates A, B, and C in the Cleveland Airport and talked to the TSA agents who are all working and working without pay. Then, when I got to Washington--I flew into National Airport--I went straight to a building in Arlington where I talked to cafeteria workers. They are Federal contract workers who serve food at our Smithsonian museums and other Federal facilities. They don't work for the Federal Government. Their paychecks don't come from the Federal Government. They are contracted through a company and then paid by these companies. They have lost their jobs during the Trump shutdown. These workers, making $12, $13, $14--some with some seniority make $15. They are union. They make 2 or 3 dollars more than the nonunion comparable workers. But they are not getting paid. Unlike the 800,000 Federal workers, some working without pay, some furloughed--unlike them, if history is a judge, they will not get paid those lost wages. So these are people making $12, $13, $14 an hour who have already lost 2 weeks of work because of the Trump shutdown, and unless Congress acts, they have no prospect to get that back pay. Again, their wages are at that level. Then, last night, to sort of cap the day, in my apartment here I watched the President of the United States talk about his wall and dig in a little more.…”