Political Quotes

“I rise today out of deep frustration with the Trump administration's treatment of Federal workers due to the government shutdown. It has been 17 days since more than 380,000 Federal workers were furloughed and more than 450,000 began working without pay. Once upon a time, we were told that Mexico would pay for the President's border wall. Now the President is demanding taxpayers cough up more than $5 billion, and he is holding our Federal workers hostage until he gets it. At first the President tried to paint Federal workers and contractors as political actors. Now he imagines that Federal workers are actually cheering him on. But rather than imagining what Federal workers are going through, I encourage the President and my Republican colleagues to listen to the firsthand accounts of how this shutdown is affecting the real families caught up in it. Here are some of the messages I have received from Virginians whose families are experiencing significant financial hardship because of this President's shutdown. Rebecca in Chesapeake writes: ``. . . I just want my husband to be able to go back to the work he loves and to have stability for my family returned . . . The stress of not knowing how long this will last is eating at both my husband and me.'' Rosemarie in Falls Church shared this: ``My husband was diagnosed last week with advanced lung cancer and now on top of that stress, I have to worry about not getting a paycheck . .…”