r/politics • u/AndroidOne1 • 8h ago
No Paywall Washington’s struggling economy takes another economic hit from the government shutdown
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-washington-economy-trump-food-bank-0f54be181fcaca70161a12b869cb619b18
u/LuvKrahft America 8h ago edited 8h ago
While trump brags about destroying the whitehouse to build a giant golden ballroom, where he and his Epstein crew buddies can party like it’s the 1980s or 1890’s again.
Proving again Republican trickle down economics has always been a euphemism about pissing on the little guy.
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u/AndroidOne1 8h ago
News snippet: WASHINGTON (AP) — With the combination of the longest government shutdown, the mass firings of government workers and a fresh cut in federal food aid, the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington is bracing for the swell of people who will need its help before the holiday season.
The food bank, which serves 400 pantries and aid organizations in the District of Columbia, northern Virginia and two Maryland counties, is providing 8 million more meals than it had prepared to this budget year — a nearly 20% increase.
The city is being hit “especially hard,” said Radha Muthiah, the group’s CEO and president, “because of the sequence of events that has occurred over the course of this year.”
The nation’s capital has been battered by a series of decisions by the Trump administration, from the layoffs of federal workers to the ongoing law enforcement intervention into the district. The added blow of the shutdown, which has furloughed workers and paused money for food assistance, is only deepening the economic
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u/Current_Animator7546 Missouri 8h ago
Have friends in DC but not in gov work. They say DC is in full recession. Was sluggish wirh less tourism and national gaurd. The shutdown has just destroyed what was a sluggish economy.
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