First across the street is the trump hotel, rooms there going for about 500 a night. But the federal triangle is where normally on a typical morning there would be thousands of people coming to work here. Right . Theyd be coming to work at the epa or the irs or customs and border protection. Its like new years day. Theres nobody here. Many of them, the last few days have been going to food pantries, food banks, restaurants where theyre giving away food because they need to feed their families or they need lunch. They simply dont have the money anymore for that, and now were looking at the second missed paycheck, of course, for federal workers. Were now well into 33 days on this government shutdown. Within the last 24 hours the coast guard has said this is unacceptable that members of the coast guard and their families are going to food banks to feed themselves. They are going to social media last night to essentially put out the word that this cannot continue. Business ceos in switzerl
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