Government workers launch 1,000 GoFundMe pages as shutdown drags on

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. this should not be necessary

It's a manufactured crisis causing a lot of needless pain and suffering.

It does not just affect those struggling without a paycheck, either.

Consumer, worker, health and safety protection agencies throughout the federal government are being disrupted by federal worker furloughs stemming from the partial government shutdown, according to a report Public Citizen released today.

“As long as the shutdown continues, essential consumer, worker, health and safety protections carried out by these agencies are on hold,” said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. “Corporate lawbreakers are going unpunished, safety inspections are being postponed, discrimination charges are going uninvestigated, polluters are not being held in check, financial fraudsters are not being policed, consumer complaints are not being received and accident investigations have ceased.”

https://www.citizen.org/media/press-releases/trump-shutdown-disrupts-consumer-worker-health-safety-protections