As the president and congressional leaders continue to negotiate the details of funding the government, much has been said about the 800,000 nameless government…
As the president and congressional leaders continue to negotiate the details of funding the government, much has been said about the 800,000 nameless government employees that didn’t receive paychecks this week.
Unfortunately, too little has been said about what those employees actually do in their jobs and the critical functions they play in making America safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. They are more than mere cogs in some larger government machine. They are real people, performing critical roles, all in service of their country on whom many aspects of our day-to-day lives depend.
Not only will they be hurt in missing paychecks — the first of these was Friday — but the critical functions they perform are being curtailed to various degrees by the shutdown.
Here’s just a very small sampling of those people, in particular, a selection of those who work in security and safety fields, who are performing critical roles for our country:
►Members of the FBI’s joint terrorism task forces who work with state and local agencies and are on the lookout each and every day for threats to their fellow citizens.
