and now the series of public hearings on that attack? are you concerned about your members? i certainly am. you gotta remember, i represent the va hospital. i represent social security workers. i represent b.o.p. employees. i represent i.c.e. employees. you know the people that are really upset, they re upset because maybe acclaim didn t go the way they wanted to go. these are the people on the front lines. i am very concerned about the people that i represent. now, i would imagine a lot of union presidents right now are hearing from their members about our nation s rising inflation. that is now at a 40 year high, according to the bureau of labor statistics yesterday. what are you hearing from your
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are you for that? absolutely not. because what does that say when you start it up, for example, va workers or social security workers, when you start it up for them, what are you saying to the kids in head start so are all the democrats on board in that position? there will be no piecemeal support coming from the democrats? almost all democrats on board. you know, you always have some democrats in very difficult swing districts who may not join in, but i would say out of the entire democratic caucus of 201 members, i would say about 185 are depentabdably against the i we can do anything piecemeal. congressman matt cartwright, thank you so much for joining us on the ed show tonight and congress going right back to the floor, a sign of strength around
and if your eighth grade trip is planning a trip to see the lincoln memorial, you might be shut out if the government is closed. here s what closes if there were a government shutdown. parks, monuments, museums, they all could close, they did in 1995 and 1996, the last time this happened. a toxic waste clean-up could be stopped. federal employees federaloed without pay. hundreds of thousands of them, passport application offices, getting a gun permit. if you re in bankruptcy court, bankruptcy cases, all of those things grind to a halt. the things that do stay open, ali, anything with national defense, law enforcement, the things that are the very essential bare bones of the government. the mail stays open. social security checks, those would still be delivered. there would be enough employees on deck to make sure that those go out. but there would be thousands of other social security workers who would likely be furloughed. law enforcement and lawmakers who make $174,000 a year. they w
is planning a trip to the lincoln member more yam, you recall might be shut out. here s what closes, parks, monuments, museums, they all could close. they did in 1995 and 1996 the last time this happened. toxic waste cleanup could be stopped. federal employees without pay. hundreds of thousands of them, that means passport application offices, getting a gun permit, bankruptcy cases, all of those things grind to a halt. the things that do stay open, anything with national defense, law enforcement, the things that are the very essential bare bones of the government. the mail, for example, stays open. social security checks. those would still be delivered. there would be enough employees on deck to make sure that those go out but there would be thousands of other social security workers who would likely be furloughs. law enforcement and lawmakers, ali, lawmakers whoic ma, you know, $174,000 a year, they would still get their paychecks. generals, the president and