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Speaker says government shutdown is harming local workers and commuters
Summary
A speaker at a St. Mary’s County meeting said the federal government shutdown is affecting local base employees and commuters to Washington, D.C., and called the shutdown “unacceptable.”
The federal government shutdown is having local impacts on base employees and people who commute to work in Washington, D.C., a staff member said during a St. Mary’s County meeting.
“It’s still going on. It’s ridiculous. It’s unacceptable. Congress really needs to do their job,” the staff member said during opening remarks. The speaker said the shutdown affects “some of our coworkers on the base” and other commuters who travel to jobs in the District of Columbia.
“They have impacts across the country, but it has impacts locally to some of our coworkers on the base, to just people who commute to work jobs in DC,” the staff member said. The speaker also said Congress’s failure to pass a full budget — “they haven’t passed a budget since Clinton was president” — has prolonged the problem and urged lawmakers to pass at least a continuing resolution.
The comments were presented as an observation by the speaker; no formal county action or directive in response to the shutdown was announced during the meeting.
