Shutdown in the States: 'We Need to Start Taking This Seriously'

[left-of-center2012]

States depend on federal money to pay for food stamps, welfare and programs such as the Child Care and Development Fund Plan, the National Flood Insurance Program and the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which provides matching grants for state and local parks and recreation projects.

The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps, is funded through the month. If the shutdown lasts longer, the benefit might be cut off, affecting about 40 million people. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, already ran out of money.

Because the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is closed, officials there won’t process Section 8 and veterans housing vouchers, or answer cities’ questions on grants, Benjamin said. Cities may soon have to work with landlords, food banks and within their own limited budgets to help residents get by in the meantime.

“This is affecting people’s lives,” he said. “We’re not just talking about the 800,000 federal workers. Our most economically vulnerable and hardest-working citizens won’t be able to pay rent.”

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/01/09/shutdown-in-the-states-we-need-to-start-taking-this-seriously

[still_one]

1. Start impeachment proceedings. McConnel can't shut that down

[Demsrule86]

2. And what would be the point? There is not enough votes in the Senate to convict.

People don't get that impeachment without conviction is a waste of our time and dangerous to our ability to win in 20 and beyond.

[still_one]

3. It isn't about 2020 at this point. The President is holding the country hostage, and is a danger to

its security, and the welfare of its citizens.