As federal workers miss paychecks during shutdown, many turn to food banks for relief

The government shutdown reached day 24 on Friday, marking another milestone for federal workers as they missed a paycheck. That is putting the squeeze on family finances, and many federal workers are now turning to local food banks to help put food on the table. Lisa Desjardins discussed more with Radha Muthiah, the CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington.

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Honestly, Trump and Vought are probably cheering about civil servants needing food banks.

Project 2025’s Vought (who Trump appointed as the OMB (“budget”) director) has been plotting how to rid of federal employees for a long time.

And I heard some of Trump’s speech in S Korea the other day where he boasted about how he has been cutting the “federal bureaucracy,” and said he had 100,000+ gone so far (the workers who took Trump/Musk’s fork-in-the-road ‘deal’).

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