If you look closely at the picture you can see sadness on some of their faces. Can you even imagine how it feels to know that your family’s life is being put in the balance because your leaders can’t get it together? We are talking about the people who won their states because they promised to look after their people.

This is America and we are acting like some third world country that some of these guys served in. How can anyone in congress sleep at night? How can Trump sleep at night knowing that their inability to get along is causing so many families pain. Our workers are being oppressed and having it sugar coated by being told they will get funds at a later date.

We have important updates being put off due to the shutdown. Earlier I received this message because I signed up for updates. Don’t ask why, just know that when a natural disaster happens, I plan to know.

“Recent Observations: Cascade Range volcanoes remained at background activity levels throughout the week. During the lapse in appropriations, CVO continues to maintain networks and issue updates and notifications of volcanic activity. Volcano monitoring data will continue to available on the CVO website. Some website content will not be updated and information may become outdated. More information about the partial government shutdown is available at https://www.doi.gov/shutdown. ” This email is from the U.S. Geological Survey.

These are the workers who monitor volcanoes and earthquakes. They monitor Yellowstone National Park which happens to be a super-volcano. With all the movement under Yellowstone and NASA trying to drill holes in it to cool it down, I would think that they need to have someone on it day and night. These are important jobs being held up, such as Homeland Security. Do they not understand that the average person doesn’t have 300000 waiting in their accounts to ward off bills?

Our leaders are not leading.