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WATCH: Maxine Waters Snaps When Asked About Healthcare for Illegal Aliens

When confronted outside the Capitol, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was asked if Democrats are willing to shut down the U.S. government to prioritize healthcare for illegal immigrants.

“Quit it. Stop it. This is the kind of journalism we don’t need,”

@RepMaxineWaters

shot back after being pressed on whether Democrat demands for universal healthcare include non-citizens during a looming shutdown.

Despite denying any prioritization, Waters admitted:

“Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody. We want to save lives.”

With a shutdown deadline approaching,Democrats are facing criticism over pushing expansive government healthcare while risking vital services for American citizens.

https://x.com/RealLindellTV/status/1973056021468779000

>>23680718 She is insanely insane!

Not Only Tulsi: Three Members of Congress Also Spied On In Quiet Skies Program 1/3

Exclusive: new Senate documents show members of Congress, others placed under an intrusive surveillance for dubious reasons under now-defunct TSA program

MATT TAIBBI

SEP 30, 2025

Ahead of Tuesday hearings on the subject, the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) obtained documents showing three members of Congress, all Republicans, were followed under the TSA’s just-discontinued Quiet Skies program, which became infamous last summer when whistleblowers revealed bomb-sniffing dogs and Air Marshals were assigned to follow former Hawaii Congresswoman and future National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard.

The members’ names have not yet been publicly released, but they were turned over to the Committee by the Department of Homeland Security, along with “TSA” notes explaining how they ended up on the list. Two of the three members made it onto the list before being elected, but as the Committee notes, “a cursory review would have revealed them to be a member of Congress, or a decorated U.S. veteran or service member.” The list below looks like four entries, but the second and third are the same member:

Three current members of Congress in addition to Tulsi Gabbard were recently chosen for “Quiet Skies” surveillance

A wealth of other information — not just about Quiet Skies but other questionable TSA practices— has been produced to the Committee chaired by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. Among the revelations:

Documentation showing theTSA approved “enhanced screening” and watchlisting for individuals merely “suspected of traveling to the National Capital Region” in conjunction with January 6th, and who are “believed to pose an elevated risk” but for whom “there is a current lack of specific information relating to unlawful entry into the U.S. Capitol”;

Placement on the TSA Watch List (Enhanced Screening) is appropriate for:

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• Individuals suspected of traveling to the National Capital Region in conjunction with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and who are believed to pose an elevated risk of domestic terrorism,? but for whom there is a current lack of specific information relating to unlawful entry into the U.S. Capitol, violent acts in support of the January 6, 2021 attack, or incitement of the same, and who do not otherwise the criteria forplacement on the TSA Watch List (Deny Boarding).

At least 24 people were put into the programfor being associated with a group the protested mask mandates, and 12 were placed on a watch list for removing their masks in-flight. The latter act was described in one memo as being “an act of extreme recklessness in carrying out an act that represents a threat to the life of passengers and crew”;

Confirmation that Gabbard was indeed surveilled for eight flights last summer,as UncoverDC and Racket reported. The ostensible justification? She waslisted as a “possible affiliate” of a member of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), which at last count contained over a million people. Internal correspondence also shows that after the story was made public, “TSA is looking into the incident with regards to people with access to this information”;

Confirmation that the TSA pulled a web screenshot of Gabbard’s Congressional bio and not an official Passport or other government photo, as would be standard;

=Confirmation that the TSA put Christine Crowder, wife of a Federal Air Marshal and upcoming witness Mark Crowder, under “Special Mission Coverage==” due to “association of traveling on the same itinerary as a KST,” or Known or Suspected Terrorist. The TSA mistakenly believed Mrs. Crowder entered the Capitol on January 6th, and eventually conceded the episode was a case of “mistaken identity.”

Racket readers will recall a fiasco that spilled into public last August 4th, when UncoverDC (a site run by well-known online journalist Tracy Beanz) ran a story citing travel dates titled “Federal Air Marshal Whistleblowers Report Tulsi Gabbard Actively Under Surveillance via Quiet Skies Program.” When I reached out to Gabbard, she told me “The whistleblowers’ account matches my experience,” and told of a series of intrusive searches dating to July 23, 2024,just after she’d criticized eventual nominee Kamala Harris on The Ingraham Angle, saying she “does not have the strength to stand up to the Military-Industrial Complex.”

https://www.racket.news/p/not-only-tulsi-three-members-of-congress

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Only after Donald Trump was re-elected and news broke that Gabbard was his likely choice for the DNI position did the mainstream press bound into action — not to question surveillance of a high-profile politician, but to raise questions about Gabbard’s character.

CNN, for instance, wrote “the episode has raised eyebrows among security officials, who point to Gabbard’s history of unusual relationships overseas.” The New York Times waited almost six months, until January of 2025, to say there was no indication Gabbard “did anything wrong” in her overseas trip, but the episode “raised questions about the extent to which Mr. Trump’s nominee to serve as the nation’s top intelligence official adequately weighed the implications of her foreign travels and association’s.

New York Times, January 28, 2025

Quiet Skies became known to the public in 2018, when The Boston Globe exposed that the TSA was following 30 people a day (later reports put the number closer to 50), despite the program never once leading to an arrest or preventing a terrorist incident. The program was both intrusive and wasteful, to extreme degrees. Each “selectee” was followed by three (and now, we learn, possibly more) members of the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS),in addition to being subject to special searches and examination by bomb-sniffing dogs. A 2019 report of the Homeland Security Inspector General found an astonishing $394 million — nearly half the Air Marshals’ $803 million budget — could have been “put to better use.”

If you were chosen for Quiet Skies coverage, Marshals trained to prevent terrorists from rushing cockpitswould instead be asked to try to listen to your in-flight conversations, register the type of smartphone you used, even mark down “what exact times you went to the bathroom, so they could figure out the frequency,” as formal Marshal Robert MacLean put it.

At the time, this was not a partisan issue. The Globe’s hometown Senator,Ed Markey, grilled then-TSA chief David Pekoskie aboutwhy his agency would “monitor Americans who aren’t suspected of any crime” and “does the TSA monitor whether Americans go to the bathroom during flights?”

Over the years, however, party interest in Quiet Skies became curiously divided. In 2023, then-Democratic Chair of the same Homeland Security Committee Gary Peters released a report showing a number of concerning details likely unknown to most Americans.For instance, “U.S. travelers may be screened for at least 22 different reasons” (likely 21, now that Quiet Skies has been eliminated). The Peters report however stressed the notion that “certain communities — Muslim, Arab, and South Asian Americans in particular — claim they have been unfairly targeted,” at a timewhen the program was targeting all sorts of people, including people protesting mask mandates.

Meanwhile,the Trump administration and DHS Chief Kristi Noem ended the program because “since its existence has failed to stop a single terrorist attack while costing US taxpayers $200 million a year,” citing also episodes and documents that “highlight the inconsistent application of Quiet Skies and watchlisting programs, circumventing security policies to benefit politically aligned friends and family at the expense of the American people.”

In 2023, William “Billy” Shaheen, husband of New Hampshire Democratic Senator JeanneShaheen, also triggered a Quiet Skies rule by scheduling a flight with a “KST,” meaning a Known or Suspected Terrorist(reportedlyimmigration lawyer Celine Atallah). After two enhanced searches, Senator Shaheen contacted then-TSA administrator David Pekoske, after which Mr. Shaheen was excluded from Quiet Skies.

The TSA throughout the Gabbard affair maintained that entry into “Quiet Skies” only took place if a person was “matched to a risk-based rule.” The new documents do bear this out, showing for instance in the cases of the three members of Congress that each was put in the program after triggering a rule, identified by a multi-digit numeral. The “rules,” however, are in many cases just arcane combinations of demerits. While we’re unable to disclose the exact “derog” info that might entail, a hypothetical example might be: “A person who falls in a certain age range and traveled to the U.S. from a particular NATO Country and who traveled to one of four Middle Eastern countries in the last two years.”

Gabbard was ostensibly placed in the program because, as the Times reported, she attended an event “at the Vatican that was organized by a European businessman who appeared on an F.B.I. watch list

(https://www.racket.news/p/not-only-tulsi-three-members-of-congress

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.” Marshals were told this was the reason.The DHS documentsinclude text exchanges between Marshals assigned to cover Gabbard from July 22 of last year.One section describes her as an “affiliate” with a member of the Terrorist Screening Database:

so Gabbard is an affiliate with a TSDB, and since she’s no longer in Congress that’s probably why she hit for the rule.

Yeah I talked with [redacted] about it and that’s the conclusion we came to as well.

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This explanation isn’t exactly seamless, however. Other well-known Americans should have triggered the same rule and did not. The use of Gabbard’s Congressional photo instead of an official one suggested to multiple former Marshals that there was at least human review of the episode.

“Obviously,” one former Marshal explained, “there is a way for human beings to influence the decision tree above our level.”

Quiet Skies wasn’t just a 9/11 anachronism that wasted taxpayer money and created a high risk of politicized use of federal enforcement resources.MacLean describes how the program complicated ordinary anti-terrorist surveillance, because Marshals were often seated in the backs of planes to watch members of Quiet Skies lists, and terrorists do not rush cockpits from rear seats. In a refrain that’s become common among current and former FBI agents as well as other enforcement or interdiction agents, MacLean complained,“The air marshal’s job is to protect the cockpit and the pilots. Let somebody else do the intelligence and criminal investigative work.” A Merit Systems Protection Board judge dismissed the complaint in early 2020, but the DHS IG agreed with MacLean later that year.

“For those flights covered by Federal air marshals,” it wrote, “seating positions on the aircraft, as well as aircraft layout, impeded sightlines and may have prevented air marshals from visually identifying potential threats.”

==Another serious issue involved Marshals being asked to follow selectees all the way out of the airport to see who, if anyone, picks them up.

They are asked to do this even overseas. “You’re basically telling air marshals to conduct foreign surveillance,” MacLean said. “It’s crazy==.” He pointed to an incident in 2010 in which two Air Marshals had to flee Brazil on “alternate documents.” It wasn’t over Quiet Skies, but it underscores the risk of sending people not trained to operate overseas into the field abroad.

The elimination of Quiet Skies, along with programs like the Global Engagement Center, shows the administration is serious at least about eliminating the most obviously abusive and indefensible security programs. However, as I’ll be testifying this morning in the Senate, there are more. And they need to be reevaluated, and in many cases defunded. Thanks to Senator Paul and his staff for retrieving these documents.

Senator Edward Markey grills TSA chief over 'Quiet Skies'

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https://youtu.be/OlaoN1aDfcI

(https://www.racket.news/p/not-only-tulsi-three-members-of-congress

Des Moines superintendent did not receive the doctoral degree he frequently claimed

Tyler Jett

The superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools did not obtain a doctoral degree from a Maryland university, as he has claimed for many years.

Ian Roberts, who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday, Sept. 26 and faces deportation, has long stated that he received a doctoral degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore.

But a university spokesperson told the Des Moines Register on Monday thatRoberts did not obtain a degree from the school, despite attending Morgan State from the fall of 2002 through the spring of 2007.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2025/09/30/dmps-superintendent-ian-roberts-claimed-doctoral-degree-morgan-state-university/86431683007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z11xx97p117250n00–c00–u004297e002700v11xx97&gca-ft=9&gca-ds=sophi&sltsgmt=0154_E

Des Moines School Board accepts Roberts’ resignation as superintendent after ICE arrest 1/2

Students at Central Academy in downtown Des Moines participate in a planned, district-wide walkout in support of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts Tuesday.

Students at Hoover High School in Des Moines walked out of class at 11 a.m. Tuesday to protest the arrest of the district's superintendent by ICE agents.

The crowd stretched for blocks down the street and cars honked as the students walked and chanted things like, “We want justice, not just ice,” and the state motto, “Our liberties we prize, our rights we will maintain.”

Some addressed their peers and spoke out against what they see as ICE violating due process, regardless of citizenship.A student with immigrant parents said they’re terrified their family could be detained at any moment. (Good if they are here illegally they should be afraid)

More than 100 students at Hoover High School joined the walk-out Tuesday morning. Teachers and school administrators monitored traffic in front of the school as the student protesters walked up and down the block chanting anti-ICE slogans.

Several students in the crowd said they haven’t seen a protest this big since they started attending school. For many, it was their first protest. is a developing story and will be updated.

The Des Moines School Board accepted Superintendent Ian Roberts’ resignation in a special session Tuesday night. The unanimous decision comes less than a week after Roberts was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and hours after his attorney presented Roberts' resignation letter.

The board voted Monday to place Roberts on unpaid administrative leave, following the State Board of Educational Examiners revoking his educational license on Sunday.

Attorney for Roberts presents resignation letter and more details

Alfredo Parrish, the lead attorney representing Roberts, provided a resignation letter he wrote to the Des Moines School Board. It reads:

“Dr. Roberts has authorized me to send this letter announcing his immediate resignation from his position as superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools. Out of concern for his 30,000 students, Dr. Roberts does not want to distract the board, educators and staff from focusing on educating DMPS’s students.”

Parrish also said he will file a motion to reopen Roberts’ immigration case,in addition to a motion filed Monday to stay Roberts’ deportation. He suggested his arguments will include that Roberts thought his immigration case had been resolved earlier this year, and that Roberts is an asset to the community.

“We want you to know that Dr. Roberts’ greatest concern is about his students who he actually loved, and the students who love him back and his staff,” Parrish said.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Roberts to enforce a final removal order from May 2024. Roberts is anative of Guyana, but on an I-9 employment eligibility form he indicated that he was a U.S. citizen, according to DMPS. The school district said Roberts provided a driver’s license and Social Security card as documentation.

DMPS said Monday it received a copy of Roberts' removal order from the Department of Justice, as well as notification from the Department of Homeland Securitythat Roberts does not have work authorization.

When asked ifRoberts was authorized to work in the U.S. when he started working for DMPS in 2023, Parrish said he is still “digging through” those questions and does not yet have access to Roberts’ full immigration case file.

But Parrish provided a letter he said was from Roberts’ priorTexas-based immigration attorney telling Roberts “his case had been closed successfully, and he was under the impression that it had been.”

https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-09-30/ian-roberts-is-resigning-as-des-moines-superintendent-after-ice-arrest

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The letter from Jackeline Gonzalez to Ian Andre Roberts dated March 27, 2025, states:

“I am writing to inform you of the closure of your immigration case. It has been my pleasure to represent you throughout this process,and I am pleased to report that your case has reached a successful resolution.”

IPR News left a message seeking comment with Gonzalez’s office Tuesday afternoon.

Parrish said he is also “trying to get to the bottom of” whetherRoberts participated in immigration proceedings surrounding his 2024 deportation orderand how Roberts was notified of that order.He would not say if Roberts has ever applied for a Green Card or citizenship.

Parrish said Roberts was born in Guyana in December 1970, but would not say when and how Roberts first came to the U.S. from Guyana. Parrish saidhe did not want to respond to questions about reports that Roberts identified himself as a U.S. citizenon hiring forms. Roberts provided a driver’s license and a Social Security card to verify his employment eligibility, according to DMPS.

“Certain people coming into this country are entitled to get a Social Security number,” Parrish said. “We thoroughly checked that out. That’s not our concern at the moment.”

ICE said agents found a loaded gun in Roberts’ DMPS-owned vehicle when he was arrested. Parrish did not directly address ICE’s allegation, but he saidRoberts was in the military in Guyana, where he led raids “on the biggest criminals in Guyana.” (Roberts is another Ilhan story, her father killed many and then they escaped the country.and they made up all kinds of stories how their family was persecuted when her father killed many innocent)

“And doing that type of work, he was a target on some occasions to be taken out by the cartel,” he said. “And so we don’t know where that goes, but I think perhaps the government knows that.”

Parrish also did not want to provide detailsabout a raid on Friday night of Roberts’ home by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He said he’s seeking moreinformation about ICE’s allegation of a previous weapons charge from February 2020.

Overall, Parrish said this is a complex case and people should be patient as his team takes things one step at a time. He said Roberts has been a “tremendous asset” and aninspiration to the community as the first Black superintendentof the Des Moines school district.

“It’s the first time we’ve had someone, in my opinion, as qualified to reach out to the students as Dr. Roberts,” Parrish said. “The thing that has amazed me, quite frankly, are the calls from other jurisdictions who said this man changed the way we looked at education, and so we’re going to work our hearts out for him.”

Roberts' education background and credentials

Questions about Roberts’ immigration history have raised concerns about his background and credentials.

Roberts has an extensive educational history, according to professional bios and his LinkedIn profile, including attending seven universities. The years spent at each university are included on his LinkedIn profile,although the degrees are not listed.

IPR News contacted the seven universitiesthat Roberts listed publicly as attending. Three of those universities responded as of Tuesday afternoon.

A staff member for Morgan State confirmed that Roberts attended from fall 2002 to spring 2007. Roberts was pursuing a doctorate inurban educational leadership. However,the university confirmed that Roberts did not receive a degree or a certificate from Morgan State.

Roberts is frequently called “Dr. Roberts” by DMPS staff members and other members of the community. At the news conference Tuesday, his lawyer saidRoberts received a doctorate from Trident University International. Trident University has not responded to emails from IPR News.

Coppin State University in West Baltimore, Md., sent IPR News a statement saying that Roberts graduated in 1998 and was “a standout scholar and athlete during his undergraduate studies.”The university did not specify what degree Roberts earned.

Brian T. Browne, spokesman for St. John's University in New York, said that Roberts received a master’s degree from St. John’s on June 4, 2000.Browne confirmed that Roberts did not receive a doctorate from St. John’s. The master’s degree was a “master of science education/general and special education (grades 7-12).”

Students leave classes in protest

Students walked out of Des Moines high schools throughout the day Tuesday to protest Roberts' detention by ICE officers Friday.

The walkouts started with Des Moines high school students from Central Campus marching up to Terrace Hill, the governor’s mansion.

https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-09-30/ian-roberts-is-resigning-as-des-moines-superintendent-after-ice-arrest

Supreme Court lets Fed Governor Lisa Cook keep job pending oral argument in January

PUBLISHED WED, OCT 1 202510:52

@_DANMANGAN

KEY POINTS

• The Supreme Court allowed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to remain in her post pending oral arguments in January on whether President Donald Trump has legal cause to fire her.

• The court’s move is a blow to Trump, who has repeatedly and unsuccessfully asked federal courts to allow him to terminate Cook from the Fed’s Board of Governors without

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to remain in her post pending oral arguments in January on whether President Donald Trump has legal cause to fire her.

The court’s move is a blow to Trump, who has repeatedly and unsuccessfully asked federal courts to allow him to terminate Cook from the Fed’s Board of Governors without delay.

Trump has cited claims that Cook committed mortgage fraud as his reason for firing her. Cook denies any wrongdoing in connection with statements she made in applying for mortgages on two homes she owns in Michigan and Georgia.

The court simply noted the ruling without explanation, saying that a request from Trump tostay an injunction against removing Cook is “deferred pending oral argument in January 2026.”

(MSNBC takes this as a win, it’s not a win, it’s a delay)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/supreme-court-trump-fed-lisa-cook.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dares Republicans to make a funding deal with her

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No one said it was AOC blocking the budget they said Schumer is responsible, as if AOC could do any negotiations. Liar and fraud she is. She’s trying get credit, what a dope

https://youtu.be/8piMUglFW2I

POLITICS

Trump administration freezes $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects, Vought says

WED, OCT 1 202510:23 AM

Dan Mangan

WATCH LIVE

KEY POINTS

• The Trump administration has frozen about $18 billion for infrastructure projects in New York City to make sure that funding is not “flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles,” a top official said.

• The funding is earmarked for the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Avenue Subway project, said Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought.

• Vought announced the freeze in posts on the social media site X.

The Trump administration has frozen about $18 billion for two major infrastructure projects in New York City to ensure that funding is not “flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles,” a top official said Wednesday.

The funding is earmarked for the Hudson River Tunnel Project and the Second Avenue Subwayproject, said Office of Management and BudgetDirector Russell Vought.

Vought announced the freeze in posts on the social media site X.

“Roughly $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles,” Vought wrote.

DEI refers to diversity, equity and inclusion policies, which have become a target for the Trump administration.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the freeze on that basis.

But the Department of Transportation later said that Secretary Sean Duffy’s “position on the DBE program is clear – subsidizing infrastructure contracts with taxpayer dollars based on discriminatory principles is unconstitutional, counter to civil rights laws, and a waste of taxpayer resources.”

The DOT in a statement, said it had issued “an interim final rule (IFR) barring race- and sex-based contracting requirements from federal grants,” and that it had sent “letters to New York to inform them that their two mega projects – the 2nd Avenue Subway and Hudson Tunnel – are under administrative review to determine whether any unconstitutional practices are occurring.”

“The Department is focusing on these projects because they are arguably the largest infrastructure initiatives in the Western Hemisphere, and the American people want to see them completed quickly and efficiently,” the DOT said.

“Until USDOT’s quick administrative review is complete, project reimbursements cannot be processed, including a $300 million disbursement for the 2nd Avenue Subway. The remaining federal funding for these projects totals nearly $18 billion.

Vought’s announcement came on the first day of the shutdown of the U.S. government after Congress failed to pass stopgap funding bills that would have kept federal agencies and services operating at normal capacity for at least another seven weeks.

The funding freeze is not a result of the shutdown,but the DOT said that its review of the projects will take longer than normal because of the shutdown.

“Thanks to the Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies shutdown, however, USDOT’s review of New York’s unconstitutional practices will take more time,” the DOT said, referring to the Senate’s minority leader and and House minority leader, who are both Democrats from New York City.

“Without a budget, the Department has been forced to furlough the civil rights staff responsible for conducting this review.

“This is another unfortunate casualty of radical Democrats’ reckless decision to hold the federal government hostage to give illegal immigrants benefits,” the DOT said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/trump-new-york-funding-infrastructure-vought.html

>>23681153 the democrats are now understanding when Trump said we could do many things in the shut down

Trump shields immigration and trade from shutdown fallout

The president is attempting to exact maximum pain on Democrats by pinning the fallout on them while ensuring his own priorities continue unimpeded.

10/01/2025 05:00 AM

As Washington enters a government shutdown, the Trump administration has erected safeguards toensure President Donald Trump’s most hardline priorities continue unscathed.

Agencies central to Trump’s agenda are shielding certain programs by declaring the federal employees who work on them essential or sheltering them under already approved funding streams —designations that will allow them to keep running through the funding lapse. (The Democrats were warned, they didn’t listen)

That means offices tasked with immigration enforcement and tariff negotiations, two hallmarks of Trump’s presidency,will retain significantly more staff than they have in prior shutdowns, according to a POLITICO analysis of agency documents submitted to the White House in recent days and interviews with current and former administration officials.

That’s even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are sent home, hampering a variety of government functions including some routine food safety inspections, Social Security benefit verifications and the publication ofemployment numbersby the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Politico no citizen will notice or care.only you are worried.)

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/01/trump-protecting-priorities-from-shutdown-00588657