Federal closings on the closure of the American government

American federal workers have described their state of uncertainty, many of which are now on unpaid leave due to a government closure and a remark that their salary was “held hostage”.

Workers deemed essential can always be in service or at their office, but they may also not be paid as long as the stops.

A government closure is a familiar situation in the United States and can occur whenever Congress does not vote thanks to an annual budget. He started on Wednesday, and this dead end is characterized by supportive disputes concerning federal expenses and democratic requests to extend health care tax credits.

What makes this closure different is the fact that President Donald Trump hopes to take advantage of the opportunity to make permanent cuts to the grant and expenses of the government.

BBC News spoke to federal workers about their opinions and how the closure affected them.

Although most of the comments below are anonymous, we have verified that speakers are federal workers. US government staff are generally forbidden to speak to the media, and we have protected the identity of speakers because they could face disciplinary measures if they are appointed.

“The last closure was brutal,” said a federal worker, who stressed that the dead end in 2018-2019 lasted more than a month.

He added: “It forced me to withdraw money from my retirement plan just to cover my invoices. Now they have made it more difficult to withdraw from our retirement accounts, so if it goes as long as the last closure, I don’t know how I will pay my bills.”

The same worker said: “I voted for Trump, but I did not vote for his abuses against us.”

Another worker, for the Ministry of Internal Security, based in New Jersey, adopted a slightly different point of view: “Despite the work without a timely salary, I support the closure.”

He explained: “The bypass by the president of the power of the handbag of the Congress was not controlled by the Supreme Court. Checks and sales must be maintained.”

Meanwhile, an army engineer worker said that she was “rather in conflict” and did not have a break in the “exhausting end of the exercise – a year full of constant advice and always present” a mass shot.

She said that she “would support a closure if something productive had it, but I’m not sure anything.”

Randall de Kansas City, which works with the Aviation Meteorological Center, said: “I don’t like my salary to be held hostage while the government is fighting for separate questions.”

He said he thought that the maintenance of the national weather service was something that the two parties generally agreed, so asked why he “faced a sudden loss of funds because the congress is competing for health care or something else.” He stressed that it was his personal opinions, not those of his agency.

An anonymous employee of the US Air Force told us that if the situation was not resolved, he would have nothing to live. He expressed his dilemma as follows: “I must always present myself at work but I am not paid, because if I do not do it, it is considered awol”.

A worker from the Treasury Department had a message to the party who takes care of Trump’s Republican Party spending plans.

“I strongly implore the Democrats to remain firm and not to be caught in the continuous assault against health care and affordability for the American Americans,” she said. She added that no threat to her work would make her vacillate in her opinions.