The federal government has shut down after lawmakers failed to reach a funding agreement, forcing approximately 750,000 federal employees to be furloughed without immediate pay. This catastrophic failure of governance recklessly endangers both our dedicated public servants and the vital institutions that uphold American democracy.
The first federal government shutdown in seven years has furloughed hundreds of thousands of workers and disrupted essential services across multiple agencies. This reckless political gambit is sacrificing the livelihoods of public servants and endangering national security for partisan gamesmanship.
Furloughed Education Department workers discovered their out-of-office emails were altered without their knowledge to blame 'Democrat Senators' for the government shutdown. This reprehensible act weaponizes civil servants' professional communications for political propaganda, violating both their autonomy and the public trust.
